Statin Choice
Decision Aid
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The Statin Choice Decision Aid was created to help patients and
their clinicians to arrive at the best decision to reduce the risk of
future cardiovascular complications. The content reflects the best
available research on these medicines. This tool was developed by
the Mayo Clinic – Shared Decision Making Resource Center, based
on work conducted by researchers at the Knowledge and Evaluation
Research Unit (KER Unit). These researchers developed this tool
with the help of patients and clinicians with expertise in the
management of cardiovascular disease. The KER Unit does not
receive funding from any for-profit corporation including drug and
device companies.
Your decision was: to take standard dose statins
Current Risk
of having a heart attack
Risk for 100 people like you who do take
standard dose statins
No alternative
intervention was selected
In your current situation you have 61 in 100
chances of no heart attack happening to you
in the next 10 years.
Using ACC/AHA ASCVD Risk Calculator
no heart attack heart attack heart attack prevented by selected intervention
Statin Choice
Decision Aid
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Issues I considered when making my decision:
Cost Side Effects
Standard dose statins Standard dose
about $4/month statins
Common side effects
Daily Routine nausea, diarrhea,
constipation
Standard dose statins (most patients can tolerate);
One pill once a day
Muscle aching/stiffness
Other Benefits 5 in 100 patients
(some need to stop statins
because of this);
Standard dose statins
The use of statins reduces Liver blood test goes up
your stroke risk by about (no pain, no permanent liver
one fifth. damage):
2 in 100 patients
(some need to stop statins
because of this);
Muscle and kidney damage
1 in 20,000 patients
(requires patients to stop
statins).
Notes from your Doctor
