| Autor: |
Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Ioanna Dima, Panorios Benardos, Panagiota Mitrou, Konstantinos Mathioudakis, Anastasios Tsolakidis, Fotios Barkas, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Petros P. Sfikakis, Evangelos Liberopoulos, Charalambos Vlachopoulos |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Cardiology. Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, Vol 21, Iss , Pp 200261- (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2772-4875 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.ijcrp.2024.200261 |
| Popis: |
Background: Despite recent guidelines appropriate lipid-lowering treatment (LLT) remains suboptimal in everyday clinical practice. Aims: We aimed to describe clinical practice of use of LLT for at least high CV risk populations in a Hellenic real-world setting and assess how this relates to the European Society of Cardiology treatment guidelines. Methods: We analyzed data from a retrospective cohort study of the National Registry of patients with dyslipidemia between 1/7/2017 and 30/6/2019 who were at least of high CV risk and filled a dual or triple lipid-lowering treatment (dLLT, tLLT) prescription. The primary outcomes of interest of this analysis were to report on the patterns of LLT use in at least high CV risk patients. Results: A total of 994,255 (45.4% of Greeks on LLT) were of at least high CV risk and 120,490 (5.5%) were on dLLT or tLLT. The percentage of patients with reported statin intolerance ranged from 2 to 10%. While persistence was reported to be satisfactory (>85% for both dLLT or tLLT), adherence was low (ranging between 14 and 34% for dLLT). In 6-month intervals, the percentage of patients achieving a low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) target below 100 md/dL ranged from 20% to 23% for dLLT and 34%–37% for tLLT. Conclusions: The prevalence of at least high CV risk patients among patients receiving LLT in Greece is substantial. Despite the high persistence and probably due to the low adherence to treatment, LDL-C remains above targets in more than two thirds of patients. |
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