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ForwardNutrition Interventions to Manage Hyperlipidemia
This continuing education course digs deep into the diet patterns, foods, nutrients, and supplements affecting blood cholesterol levels. Nutrition professionals completing this course will be prepared to counsel patients with hyperlipidemia based on evidence-based research.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:
- Identify three nutrients affecting blood lipid levels.
- Assess diet plans with research-based evidence for improving hyperlipidemia.
- Counsel patients about specific foods to consume or avoid to improve blood lipids.
- Compare the effects of three dietary fat sources on blood lipid levels.
- Evaluate efficacy of supplements on hyperlipidemia.
Additional Information
Course content was written by Lauren Botelho, MS, RD, LDN, a dietitian in the Boston area currently working as a family nurse practitioner. Botelho has a BFA in writing, literature, and publishing, and does freelance nutrition writing.
The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Available Credit
- 2.00 CDR