You will have recently received a letter from the Practice informing you of your cholesterol level. This letter also specifies a potential risk of having a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years, given as a percentage:
Risk less than 10%
- if you have received this letter, click here for further information about managing your cholesterol levels.Risk more than 10%
- if you have received this letter, click here for further information about managing your cholesterol levels, which also has information about cholesterol-lower medication called statins.
Your recent blood tests have shown that you are lacking an essential vitamin called folic acid.
We have arranged a prescription of folic acid supplements for you to collect from Reception or from your usual Pharmacy of choice.
In most cases, this 3 month course is all that is required to bring levels back to normal.
* Please book an appointment with the Treatment Room for a repeat set of blood tests after this course is finished to recheck your levels *
Please click here for a fact sheet about folic acid.