Comprehensive efforts to increase adherence to statin therapy

Alexander Vonbank; Stefan Agewall; Keld Per Kjeldsen; Basil S Lewis; Christian Torp-Pedersen; Claudio Ceconi; Christian Funck-Brentano; Juan Carlos Kaski; Alexander Niessner; Juan Tamargo; Thomas Walther; Sven Wassmann; Giuseppe Rosano; Harald Schmidt; Christoph H Saely; Heinz Drexel

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw628

Comprehensive efforts to increase adherence to statin therapy

Eur Heart J. 2017 Aug 21;38(32):2473-2479. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw628.

Authors

Alexander Vonbank^{1

2}, Stefan Agewall³, Keld Per Kjeldsen^{4

5}, Basil S Lewis⁶, Christian Torp-Pedersen⁷, Claudio Ceconi⁸, Christian Funck-Brentano⁹, Juan Carlos Kaski¹⁰, Alexander Niessner¹¹, Juan Tamargo¹², Thomas Walther^{13

14}, Sven Wassmann¹⁵, Giuseppe Rosano¹⁶, Harald Schmidt¹⁷, Christoph H Saely^{1

2}, Heinz Drexel^{1

2

18}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Cardiology, Academic Teaching Hospital and VIVIT Institute Carinagasse 47, 6800 Feldkirch, Austria.
² Private University of the Principality of Liechtenstein, 9495 Triesen, Liechtenstein.
³ Oslo University Hospital Ullevål and Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital (Holbaek Hospital), Holbaek, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Health Science and Technology, The Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
⁶ Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine of the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel.
⁷ Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, A5-208, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
⁸ University Hospital of Ferrara, U.O. Cardiologia, Post Degree School in Cardiology, Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Prevention Unit, Via Aldo Moro 8, 44124 Cona, Ferrara, Italy.
⁹ INSERM, CIC-1421 and UMR ICAN 1166, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris, 06, Faculty of Medicine, F-75013 Paris, France.
¹⁰ Cardiovascular Sciences Research Centre at St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, Great Britain.
¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
¹² Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics, Center for Perinatal Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, Isar Heart Center, Isarklinikum, Sonnenstr. 24-26, 80331 Munich, Germany.
¹⁶ Irccs San Raffaele Hospital, Department of Medical Sciences, Via Della Pisana 235, 00163 Rome, Italy.
¹⁷ Department of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Pharmacology, University of Maastricht Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 Maastricht, The Netzerlands.
¹⁸ College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 28077470
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw628

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Cardiology / organization & administration
Cardiovascular Diseases / drug therapy
Cardiovascular Diseases / mortality
Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention & control
Humans
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors* / administration & dosage
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors* / therapeutic use
Medication Adherence*
Practice Guidelines as Topic

Substances

Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors