Prescribing statins: the real issues
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Hamilton-Craig, Ian R
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2014
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Patients have been stopping their statins without medical advice, in the wake of a media report in November 2013 in which United States-based commentators criticised the use of statins for various reasons, including their failure to reduce mortality, inappropriate promotion and inappropriate prescription.1 While rebuttal occurred in subsequent media reporting and by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHF), general practitioners continued to see patients who intended to discontinue statin therapy on the basis of the original report.Patients have been stopping their statins without medical advice, in the wake of a media report in November 2013 in which United States-based commentators criticised the use of statins for various reasons, including their failure to reduce mortality, inappropriate promotion and inappropriate prescription.1 While rebuttal occurred in subsequent media reporting and by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHF), general practitioners continued to see patients who intended to discontinue statin therapy on the basis of the original report.
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Journal Title
Medical Journal of Australia.
Volume
200
Issue
8
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Hamilton-Craig IR. Prescribing statins: the real issues. Med J Aust 2014; 200 (8): 440-441. © Copyright 2014 The Medical Journal of Australia – reproduced with permission.
Subject
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Psychology