The Nurse Is Teaching a Client with Elevated LDL Cholesterol

question 20

Multiple Choice

The nurse is teaching a client with elevated LDL cholesterol and decreased HDL cholesterol about strategies to manage this disorder.The client asks the nurse why there is a difference in the direction of change in the goals for altering HDL versus LDL cholesterol.The nurse's best response is:

• A)"I think you have misunderstood what I have told you, since we want both values to be reduced."
• B)"We want to increase HDL cholesterol, which helps rid the body of excess cholesterol, and to decrease LDL cholesterol, which carries excess cholesterol to the body tissue to be stored.
• C)"It is most important to increase HDL cholesterol, and if we can reduce LDL
• Cholesterol also, that might be of some help."
• D)"We want to reduce HDL cholesterol and increase LDL cholesterol because these changes will protect you against atherosclerosis."

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