Statin Advice for Patients

Your risk of Cardiovascular disease is estimated using a tool called QRisk which estimates your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years, using the information on your medical records, including blood pressure, smoking history, cholesterol and weight.

Above a 10% risk, NHS guidance is to offer active treatment with statin medication as a way of reducing risk (as they do much more than lower your cholesterol) however your risk can also be reduced by improving your lifestyle - we have linked resources to help you improve your lifestyle below. 

There are also alternate lipid lowering therapy medications you could try. Guidance for this is linked below. 

Lifestyle Measures you can take to lower your cholesterol and improve your risk score...

Please use the link in your text message to let us know if you would be happy to try a statin medication. 

Last Updated 26/09/2024