Adherence to statin treatment and associated factors in female users from the Unified Health System (SUS)
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-623420140000300013Abstract
Objective: To identify the adherence rate of a statin treatment and possible related factors in female users from the Unified Health System. Method: Seventy-one women were evaluated (64.2 ± 11.0 years) regarding the socio-economic level, comorbidities, current medications, level of physical activity, self-report of muscular pain, adherence to the medical prescription, body composition and biochemical profile. The data were analyzed as frequencies, Chi-Squared test, and Mann Whitney test (p<0.05). Results: 15.5% of women did not adhere to the medical prescription for the statin treatment, whose had less comorbidities (p=0.01), consumed less quantities of medications (p=0.00), and tended to be younger (p=0.06). Those patients also presented higher values of lipid profile (CT: p=0.01; LDL-c: p=0.02). Musculoskeletal complains were not associated to the adherence rate to the medication. Conclusion: The associated factors to adherence of dyslipidemic women to statin medical prescription were age, quantity of comorbidities and quantity of current medication.Downloads
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2014-06-01
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Bonfim, M. R., Hansen, A., Turi, B. C., Zanini, G. de S., Oliveira, A. S. B., Amaral, S. L. do, & Monteiro, H. L. (2014). Adherence to statin treatment and associated factors in female users from the Unified Health System (SUS) . Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da USP, 48(3), 477-483. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-623420140000300013