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Caregivers can help you manage your heart health.

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Who Is a Caregiver?

Caregivers can play a very important role in your heart health. They can keep you on track in managing your cholesterol levels or maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A caregiver might be a friend, family member, or loved one. In some cases, the caregiver may be a paid professional.

How Can a Caregiver Help You?

A caregiver can help you by:

Encouraging you to stay on track to reach your cholesterol and heart-health goals
Discussing how you can improve your lifestyle (how to achieve lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and a healthier weight) as a team effort
Helping you understand the importance of following a heart disease treatment plan
Joining a gym with you
Sharing recipes with you that taste great and are made with heart-healthy foods
Supporting your efforts to quit smoking
Going with you to doctor visits (both to help convey your complete health information and help you understand all the instructions given to you by your doctor)

Are You a Caregiver?

Children, spouses, and friends are important members of a patient's heart-health team. Working as part of this team, you can be a very powerful advocate. You can be a much needed cheerleader—to help inspire someone to get started on a heart-health plan, or to keep them on track. You might be the inspiration needed to make important lifestyle changes. And these changes may benefit you both.

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Important information

LIPITOR is a prescription drug. It is used in patients with multiple risk factors for heart disease such as family history, high blood pressure, age, low HDL ("good" cholesterol) or smoking to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. When diet and exercise alone are not enough, LIPITOR is used along with a low-fat diet and exercise to lower cholesterol.

LIPITOR is also used in patients with type 2 diabetes and at least one other risk factor for heart disease such as high blood pressure, smoking or complications of diabetes, including eye disease and protein in urine, to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

LIPITOR is not for everyone. It is not for those with liver problems. And it is not for women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant.

If you take LIPITOR, tell your doctor if you feel any new muscle pain or weakness. This could be a sign of rare but serious muscle side effects. Tell your doctor about all medications you take. This may help avoid serious drug interactions. Your doctor should do blood tests to check your liver function before and during treatment and may adjust your dose. The most common side effects are gas, constipation, stomach pain and heartburn. They tend to be mild and often go away.

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When diet and exercise alone are not enough, adding LIPITOR can help. LIPITOR is one of many cholesterol-lowering treatment options that you and your doctor can consider.

The health information contained herein is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace discussions with a healthcare provider. All decisions regarding patient care must be with a healthcare provider, considering the unique characteristics of the patient.

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