How do we improve patient compliance and adherence to long-term statin therapy?

P Maningat, BR Gordon, JL Breslow - Current atherosclerosis reports, 2013 - Springer
Statins are highly effective drugs prescribed to millions of people to lower LDL-cholesterol
and decrease cardiovascular risk. The benefits of statin therapy seen in randomized clinical …

Cardiovascular health disparities

AM Davis, LM Vinci, TM Okwuosa… - … Care Research and …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health care are well documented. Promising
approaches to disparity reduction are increasingly described in literature published since …

[HTML][HTML] National Lipid Association recommendations for patient-centered management of dyslipidemia: part 2

TA Jacobson, KC Maki, CE Orringer, PH Jones… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract An Expert Panel convened by the National Lipid Association previously developed
a consensus set of recommendations for the patient-centered management of dyslipidemia …

Long-term association of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with cardiovascular mortality in individuals at low 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease …

SM Abdullah, LF Defina, D Leonard, CE Barlow… - Circulation, 2018 - ahajournals.org
Background: The associations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) with
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease mortality in an exclusively low …

Racial/ethnic differences in dyslipidemia patterns

ATH Frank, B Zhao, PO Jose, KMJ Azar, SP Fortmann… - Circulation, 2014 - ahajournals.org
Background—No studies have comprehensively examined the prevalence of dyslipidemia,
a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, among diverse racial/ethnic minority groups …

Primary prevention of cardiovascular mortality and events with statin treatments: a network meta-analysis involving more than 65,000 patients

EJ Mills, B Rachlis, P Wu, PJ Devereaux… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-
CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) in primary prevention of cardiovascular events …

Trends in statin use and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels among US adults: impact of the 2001 National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines

D Mann, K Reynolds, D Smith… - Annals of …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Few data are available on the use of statins after publication of the National
Cholesterol Education Program Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATP-III) guidelines in 2001 …

[PDF][PDF] Statins and hepatic steatosis: perspectives from the Dallas Heart Study

JD Browning - Hepatology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cardiovascular disease are independently
associated. Due to the efficacy of 3‐hydroxy 3‐methylglutaryl‐coenzyme A reductase …

Effect of an automated patient dashboard using active choice and peer comparison performance feedback to physicians on statin prescribing: the PRESCRIBE cluster …

MS Patel, GW Kurtzman, S Kannan, DS Small… - JAMA network …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Statins are not prescribed to approximately 50% of patients who could benefit
from them. Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of an automated patient dashboard using …

Statin use and risk of prostate cancer recurrence in men treated with radiation therapy

R Gutt, N Tonlaar, R Kunnavakkam… - Journal of Clinical …, 2010 - ascopubs.org
Purpose There has been growing interest in the potential anticancer activity of statins based
on preclinical evidence of their antiproliferative, proapoptotic, and radiosensitizing …