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Lipid Lowering Drugs

Test Your Knowledge on Lipid Lowering Drugs

Welcome to the Lipid Lowering Drugs Quiz! Test your understanding of the various medications used to manage cholesterol levels and their associated effects.

This quiz covers:

Understanding LDL and cholesterol
Specific medications and their effects
Side effects and interactions
Clinical scenarios and drug indications

13 Questions3 MinutesCreated by LearningLipid101

LDL is :

Good cholesterol

Stored in our fat cells

The major cholesterol carrier in the blood

Regulated by hormones

Which drug(s) leads to the increase of conversion of cholesterol to bile acids in order to decrease LDL levels in the blood?

Lovastatin

Cholestyramine

Niacin

Ezetimide

Colesevelam

Bile Sequestrants should be taken 2 hours prior or 1 hour after taking other medications

True

False

A patient presents to the doctor with pruritus with cholestasis and bile salt accumulation. What drugs can be used in this case to relieve pruritus?

Statins

Fibrates

Bile Acid Sequestrants

Niacin

These drugs are prodrugs

Simvastatin

Rosuvastatin

Atorvastatin

Lovastatin

These are the most powerful agents (statins)

Simvastatin

Rosuvastatin

Atorvastatin

Lovastatin

Elevation is LFTs, muscle damage, increase in creatine kinase, rhabdomyolisis are side effects of:

Bile Acid Sequestrants

Statins

Ezetimibe

Fibrates

This prodrug is weak in mono-therapy, and is often combined with statins

Gemfibrozil

Ezetimibe

Niacin

If this drug is combined with statins, risk for myopathy increases

Ezetimibe

Fenofibrate

Gemfibrozil

Colesevelam

This drug is a form of B3, and in high doses is associated with many SE, and clinical studies did not show signs of benefit in decreasing M&M

Alirocumab

Fenofibrate

Niacin

Lomitapide

A patient presented with nasopharyngitis, flu like symptoms, and redness on her abdomen on what appears to be a site of injection. What could be the drug that she was injected with?

Evolocumab

Gemfibrozil

Atorvastatin

Cholestyramine

This medication is used for TG lowering but can cause GI effects and bleeding if taken with an anticoagulant

Alirocumab

Lovastatin

Omega-3

Niacin

Mipomersen can lead to hepatotoxicity and Lomitapide can lead to liver damage.

True

False

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