Dietary Management of Serum Lipids in general practice, what can be achieved?

Knowing patients need to change their diet is one thing - telling them how do it is another.
Reduction of serum LDL-cholesterol to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease is often a therapeutic aim. Individual diet prescriptions for patients with elevated lipids should be recommended that favourably change serum parameters. Ideally, the diet should be easily followed and effective. You, the GP, think this is the role of a dietician, but what can you do to support the process?
This workshop aims to develop the skills of GPs in dietary counselling of patients who need to follow a lipid lowering diet. The objectives are to introduce GPs to dietary counselling, and provide different evidence based dietary strategies and options such as modifying dietary fat, and incorporating principles of the DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet. The outcome from the workshop will be GPs with increased confidence to deliver simple dietary support to patients that goes further than “reduce your saturated fat and eat more fruit and veg”.

Supported by Dairy Australia

*Workshops with multiple codes are run multiple times throughout the conference. You only need to attend one of these sessions.