Statins: Moderate
Across
- 3. Crucial for long term statin benefit
- 6. Titration needed for statin intensity adjustment
- 9. Slight increase in risk with statins
- 11. Liver enzyme that may rise on statins
- 13. Often slightly raised by statin therapy
- 14. Organ needing caution with some statins
- 16. Also modestly lowered by statins
- 18. Non statin lipid lowering drug often combined
- 19. Enzyme that metabolises many statins
- 20. Blood tests used to monitor statin safety
Down
- 1. Score used to assess need for statins
- 2. Patients with existing CVD benefit most
- 4. Full name of the enzyme targeted by statins
- 5. Rare but serious statin side effect
- 7. Risk when combined with macrolide antibiotics
- 8. Fruit that interacts with simvastatin
- 10. Common non dangerous muscle side effect
- 12. Repeat lipids after starting statin therapy
- 15. The part of HMG enzyme inhibited by statins
- 17. Kinase marker of muscle injury