The Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP)sees a Patient for a Physical

The primary care nurse practitioner (NP) sees a patient for a physical examination and orders laboratory tests that reveal low-density lipoprotein (LDL) of 100 mg/dL,high-density lipoprotein (HDL) of 30 mg/dL,and triglycerides of 350 mg/dL.The patient has no previous history of coronary heart disease.The NP should consider prescribing:

A) ezetimibe (Zetia) .
B) gemfibrozil (Lopid) .
C) simvastatin (Zocor) .
D) nicotinic acid (Niaspan) .