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Colleen Walsh-Rowan

Director, Doctorate of Nursing Practice Program at Stony Brook University School of Nursing; Associate Director for Evidence-Based Practice at VA; Cardiology NP for over 27 years

Aug 12, 2026

NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner (AANP)

NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner (AANP)

189. Screen, Test, Prevent: The Latest Lipid Guidelines

Aug 12 · 23m

Sophia ThomasHOST
9:55
So I'd like you to go through some of those starting agents and then move upward as we talk about more challenging lipid disorders.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:04
Absolutely.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:05
And like you said, lifestyle changes is the foundation in healthcare.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:09
But if you do need to initiate lipid lowering therapy, statins are still first-line therapy.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:14
We have so much information on statins and we know that they work at reducing cardiovascular disease.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:19
So they are definitely the first step.
Colleen Walsh-RowanGUEST
10:22
We have multiple statin medications.
Sophia ThomasHOST
14:42
What are those goals now? Yeah,

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