Influence of Retirement on Adherence to Statins in the Insurance Medicine All-Sweden Total Population Data Base.

Autor: Heli Halava, Hugo Westerlund, Maarit Jaana Korhonen, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, Linnea Kjeldgård, Kristina Alexanderson, Jussi Vahtera
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 6, p e0130901 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130901
Popis: Retirement has been suggested to reduce medication adherence, but no evidence is available for statins. We investigated changes in adherence to statins among Swedish adults after retirement.A prospective cohort study was carried out on all individuals living in Sweden on 31 December 2004, alive in 2010, having purchased statins in the second half of 2005, and retired in 2008 (n=11 718). We used prescription dispensing data in 2006-2010 to determine nonadherence (defined as
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