tailieunhanh - High Degree of Adherence to Statin Therapy Among the Elderly Despite High Frequency of Side Effects

Although at that point, the challenges of a potential Pandemic Influenza were not being considered, this risk is now also being addressed by the training. Avian Influenza has continued its march across Europe and remains a serious threat (Revill 2007; Shaikh 2007). In this survey, 91% of senior living (SL) and long term care (LTC) administrators felt ill-prepared to deal with public health emergencies and BT threats. Eighty percent of the respondents reported that their LTC communities did not have any training (either educational or exercise based) for their workforce in this area. Moreover, 81% were not aware of emergency. | Healthy Aging Clinical Care in the Elderly Libertas Academica FREEDOM TO RESEARCH ORIGINAL RESEARCH OPEN ACCESS Full open access to this and thousands of other papers at http . High Degree of Adherence to Statin Therapy Among the Elderly Despite High Frequency of Side Effects Fadi Chedid1 and Magnus Falk2 3 1Ljungsbro Primary Health Care Centre County of Ostergotland 581 85 Linkoping Sweden. 2Research and Development Unit for Local Health Care County of Ostergotland 581 85 Linkoping Sweden. 3Department of Medical and Health Sciences Division of Community Medicine Primary Care Linkoping University 581 85 Linkoping Sweden. Corresponding author email Abstract The aims of the present study were to investigate adherence and side effects of statin therapy in elderly patients 75 years after primary statin prescription to identify possible differences related to whether statin treatment was initiated in primary care or in hospital and to investigate whether there was any correlation between side effects of statin therapy and statin dose or renal impairment. In two primary health care populations all patients 75 years of age recently initiated on statin therapy were identified through the patient data records n 90 and asked to complete a questionnaire. Of 68 subjects responding to the questionnaire 87 reported adherence to the statin therapy and 29 reported side effects. No statistically significant difference was seen for adherence or frequency of side effects depending on whether therapy was initiated in primary care or in hospital. In conclusion elderly patients appear to exhibit a high degree of adherence to statin treatment despite a high incidence of side effects. Keywords statins elderly polypharmacy adherence Healthy Aging Clinical Care in the Elderly 2011 3 1-7 doi This article is available from http . the author s publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open access article. .