What do you do when a pregnant client’s cholesterol comes back high?
It’s a question many healthcare professionals face — and one that isn’t always straightforward to answer. In this evidence-based webinar, you’ll explore how hyperlipidemia in pregnancy may influence outcomes such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and fetal growth, and what this means for your clinical decision-making.
You’ll learn how to interpret lipid results with greater confidence, identify when levels may signal increased risk, and understand when further investigation or referral is warranted.
We’ll also explore current clinical perspectives on screening, monitoring, and the role of multidisciplinary care — so you can feel more confident supporting both mother and baby during this critical window of the first 1000 days.
Recognise the Hidden Signs
Learn how to interpret lipid markers in pregnancy, including LDL, HDL, and triglycerides, within the broader context of cardiometabolic risk, insulin resistance, inflammation, and pre-existing dyslipidemia.
Develop confidence in identifying when elevations reflect normal physiological adaptation and when they warrant closer monitoring or intervention.
Understand Fat Quality and Lipid Physiology
Explore how saturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated fats, soluble fiber, and refined carbohydrates influence lipid metabolism.
Understand how pregnancy-driven hormonal and metabolic changes alter lipid transport and storage, and how dietary fat quality can meaningfully modify maternal lipid profiles.
Implement Evidence-Based Nutrition Interventions
Gain practical, evidence-based strategies to improve lipid profiles in pregnancy, including plant-forward and Mediterranean-style patterns, targeted fat substitution, and increased soluble fiber.
Review the evidence for supplements such as plant sterols and omega-3 fatty acids, and clarify their role in antenatal care.
What You’ll Learn
In this free expert-led webinar, you will strengthen your ability to support pregnant clients presenting with hyperlipidemia.
In this webinar, you will discover:
- Interpret lipid profiles in pregnancy with greater confidence, recognising expected patterns and potential abnormalities.
- Identify when elevated lipid levels may signal increased maternal or fetal risk, including associations with gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and altered fetal growth.
- Differentiate between physiological and clinically significant hyperlipidemia across the course of pregnancy.
- Determine when further investigation or specialist referral is warranted in the context of abnormal lipid results.
- Understand current clinical approaches to screening and monitoring hyperlipidemia in pregnancy, including the role of multidisciplinary care.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is designed for health professionals supporting clients in the preconception, fertility, and early pregnancy period, including:
- Dietitians and nutrition professionals looking to deepen their understanding of lipid physiology, fat quality, and evidence-based nutrition strategies for managing hyperlipidaemia in pregnancy
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Women’s health, antenatal and primary care clinicians seeking greater clarity around lipid assessment, interpretation and clinical relevance in maternal cardiometabolic care
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Midwives, nurses and allied health professionals involved in supporting metabolic health during pregnancy
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Practitioners working with gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders, obesity, PCOS or elevated cardiometabolic risk
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Students and early-career clinicians
wanting to strengthen their foundations in evidence-based antenatal and maternal nutrition care
Meet Your Host -
Daniel Luger, MD
Daniel Luger, MD, Cardiovascular Disease Specialist at Rush University System for Health and the co-founder of the Rush Metabolic Health Consortium.
Daniel Luger, MD received his medical degree from Rush Medical College. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City. As a non-invasive cardiologist his primary areas of focus are echocardiography, advanced lipidology and primary prevention. Luger is launching an interdisciplinary cardiovascular prevention clinic at Rush Oak Park.
About Early Life Nutrition Alliance Webinars
The Early Life Nutrition Alliance provides health care professionals with the most up-to-date research and practical advice for reproductive and prenatal nutrition. We host quarterly webinars (February, May, August and November) whereby we interview leading practitioners and researchers from around the world.
If you care for women who are trying to conceive or are pregnant, make sure that you don’t miss registering for our webinars.
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