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Does your LDL goal change in elderly patients with diabetes and hyperlipidemia who are on statin therapy?
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Endocrinology · Newyork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center
First, what is an elderly? I will be 81 next month, and I don't consider that young, but also not too elderly to try to protect myself from an event. This patient is a high/very high risk, and if he is at a good goal on a statin, why would anyone want to change the dose? I tell my patients that surv...