Efficiency and problems of statin therapy in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

CONCLUSIONS: the frequency of IHD in FH patients was more than three times higher in the age group over 40 years and was higher in women. In clinical practice statin therapy in FH patients rarely reaches target lipid values, one of the reasons was low adherence to statin therapy. PMID: 31818452 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Atherosclerosis Supplements - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Atheroscler Suppl Source Type: research