click here Physicians not only as healers, but as mentors and motivators.  An important factor for successfully treating most high risk patients to treatment goals is maximizing patient's compliance with drug therapy. Enabling the patients understand the nature of their disease process in simple but accurate terms and explaining how treatment can alter the normal progression of atherosclerosis are very important achieving the ultimate goal - improving patient outcomes.
Keep the patients informed on their progress.
Discuss media news about medications that your patients are taking. Misinformation abounds in the Internet and in the media. Physicians are the source of reliable information for their patients.
You Tube Patient Mentoring Series: 1. Patient Mentoring Series: What is LDL cholesterol and How Statin Medications Lower LDL Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0CUGClTbQo 2. Patient Mentoring Series: How Plaques in the Arteries Develop Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAWbG1KnuA 3. Patient Mentoring Series: How Statin Medications Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZnkvAajAE 4. Patient Mentoring Series: How Effective is Evidenced-based Medical Therapy in Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovIueGYC_U
Click the topics below to quickly navigate to specific slides. 1. The 2009 Statistics 2. Early Detection and Prevention 3. Your Ten Year Risk 4. Your Treatment Goals 5. Understanding LDL and Plaque Development 6. Understanding Prevention Science 7. Test for Early Detection 8. Stopping Normal Disease Progression 9. Safety and Benefits of Treatment 10. Why HDL is Important 11. Combination Therapy to Treat both LDL and HDL 12. Elevated Triglycerides Represent a Residual Risk after Statin Therapy 13. Helping Women Fight Heart Disease
The Statistics  
 
 
Nearly everyone knows someone, directly or indirectly - a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a co-worker, who died suddenly of a heart attack without any apparent warning symptoms.
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Advanced Medicine Shifts Treatment Focus: Detecting Disease Earlier and Halting its Progression  

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Your 10 Year Risk  
 
 
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Your Treatment Goals  
 
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Understanding LDL and Plaque Development  
 
 
 
 
Patient Mentoring Series: What is LDL cholesterol and How Statin Medications Lower LDL Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0CUGClTbQo
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Understanding the Science of Prevention  
 
 
 
 
Patient Mentoring Series: How Effective is Evidenced-based Medical Therapy in Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovIueGYC_U
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Detecting Heart Disease at its Early Stages - Much Better than Stress Test  
 

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Lipid Treatment Alters the Normal Progression of Disease Unmatched by Any Other. Optimal Comprehensive Preventive Therapy Prevents Most Events. What Can Not Be Completely Prevented Can Be Delayed by Many Years, even Decades.  
 
Patient Mentoring Series: How Plaques in the Arteries Develop Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAWbG1KnuA
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Safety and Benefits of Statin Therapy  
 

Patient Mentoring Series: How Statin Medications Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke Click this link to view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZnkvAajAE
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Importance of HDL    
Benefits of Treating both LDL and HDL  
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Elevated Triglycerides Represent a Residual Risk after Statin Therapy    
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Helping Women Defeat Heart Disease - A Woman's Risk of Dying from Cardiovascular Disease is 14 Times Greater than from Breast Cancer. But Unlike Breast Cancer, Heart Attack and Stroke are Largely Preventable.  
 
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