Modern Lipid Management: The Updated Medicine Cabinet - Clinical Spotlight Meeting on Demand-Welcome & Rapid Review: Optimizing Statins

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Dr. Martha Gowady opens up a spotlight session on modern lipid management, introducing her colleagues and thanking the sponsors of the event. She instructs attendees to participate in audience response polls through the ACC22 app and encourages them to submit questions. Dr. Gowady discusses the underutilization of statin therapy and the importance of long-term adherence and compliance. She highlights several barriers to adherence, including medication side effects, financial limitations, and polypharmacy. Dr. Gowady mentions the SAMSON study, which demonstrates that statin-associated side effects can also be elicited by placebo tablets. She concludes her talk by discussing the diagnosis and management of statin-associated muscle symptoms. Dr. Christy Ballantyne then takes the stage to discuss non-statin therapies.

Keywords

lipid management

statin therapy

adherence

side effects

SAMSON study

non-statin therapies