An 80-Year-Old Patient Is Seeing You After a Recent Hospitalization

An 80-year-old patient is seeing you after a recent hospitalization for MI. Her blood pressure is 130/85. Her lipid panel today shows an LDL of 90 mg/dl. She takes aspirin but no other medications.

A) Provide education, but do not initiate statin therapy given her age. No additional lipid monitoring required.
B) Provide education and repeat lipid panel in 1 year
C) Start atorvastatin 20 mg daily
D) Start atorvastatin 80 mg daily