The article presents a case of a 72-year old man who was admitted to the emergency department with a three-hour history of recurrent ischemic chest pain in the U.S. The diagnosis revealed that the risk factors for coronary disease of the patient included modest obesity, hypertension and a ...
Jackevicius CAMamdani MTu JV Adherence with statin therapy in elderly patients with and without acute coronary syndromes. JAMA. 2002;288462- 467PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 8. Moher DCook DJEastwood SIngram ORennie DStroup DFfor the QUOROM Group, Improving the quality of reports of meta-analys...
Adherence With Statin Therapy in Elderly Patients With and Without Acute Coronary Syndromes. Context: Landmark clinical trials have demonstrated the survival benefits of statins, with benefits usually starting after 1 to 2 years of treatment. Resea... Jackevicius,Cynthia,A.,... - 《Jama Journal...
Applegate, MD, MPH JAMA Original Contribution Adherence With Statin Therapy in Elderly Patients With and Without Acute Coronary Syndromes Cynthia A. Jackevicius, BScPhm, MSc, FCSHP; Muhammad Mamdani, PharmD, MA, MPH; Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD, FRCPC JAMA Abstract Context Knowledge of long-term ...
The use of statin therapy in elderly patients with symptomatic atherosclerosis has increased substantially during the past decade, but many patients remain untreated. The suboptimal use is greatest among patients with PAD or CVD, or both, and lowest in patients with CAD. Given the heightened risk ...
Long-term Persistence in Use of Statin Therapy in Elderly Patients. Objective: To describe the patterns and predictors of long-term persistence with statin therapy in an elderly US population. Design, Setting, and Patients:... Benner,Joshua,S.,... - 《Jama Journal of the American Medical ...
Cardiovascular risk reductions were observed, irrespective of age, in people with or without known vascular disease at the start of the trials. The evidence was less extensive in people aged over 75 who did not already have evidence of vascular disease (those who were prescribed statin therapy fo...
Long-term Persistence in Use of Statin Therapy in Elderly Patients. Context: Knowledge of long-term persistence with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) therapy is limited because previous stu... Benner,S Joshua,Glynn,... - 《Jama Journal of the American Medical ...
Although elderly patients may be more susceptible to drug interactions when receiving high doses of statins, the present evidence supports the use of intensive statin therapy in most high-risk elderly patients both with stable CHD and following acute coronary syndrome. 展开 ...
Statin Therapy in the Elderly HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) have been established as the dominant treatment for coronary heart disease (CHD). This dominance is based on an impr... MMB Mungall,A Gaw,J Shepherd - 《Drugs & Aging》 被引量: 63发表: 2003年 Do structural differences ...