Abstract

Dyslipidemia is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease in elderly,but clinical practices in the management of elderly dyslipidemia are still not satisfactory.The cornerstone of treatment for elderly dyslipidemia consists of therapeutic lifestyle change and statins.Recent guidelines emphasize aggressive low density lipoprotein-cholesterol control with statins.However,intensive statin therapy may increase the risk of myopathy and diabetes.Therefore,it is important to consider risk benefit ratio in individual patients.The additional benefit of statins in combination with other hypolipidemic drugs on cardiovascular risk still needs verifying by further investigation. Key words: Elderly ; Cardiovascular disease ; Dyslipidemia

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