Why do people not take life-saving medications? The case of statins.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Associations between statins and adverse events in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: systematic review with pairwise, network, and dose-response meta-analyses.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021 · on this map
   Pooled it
2. Closing the Gaps in Care of Dyslipidemia: Revolutionizing Management with Digital Health and Innovative Care Models.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023
   Review
3. Tackling statin intolerance with n-of-1 trials (TaSINI) in primary care: protocol for a feasibility randomised trial to increase statin adherence.BMJ open · 2020
   Article
4. Statin Dosing Instructions, Medication Adherence, and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol: a Cohort Study of Incident Statin Users.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019
   Observational
5. Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases Among Residents of a Remote Settlement in the Transbaikal Region of the Russian Federation.Central Asian journal of global health · 2019
   Article
6. Adherence to inhaled therapy and its impact on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).BMC pulmonary medicine · 2018
   Article
7. Effect of Anthocyanin Supplementations on Lipid Profile and Inflammatory Markers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Cholesterol · 2018
   Review
8. Recent trends in epidemiology of dyslipidemias in India.Indian heart journal
   Review
9. Statin Therapy Prescribing for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Review of Current Evidence and Challenges.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Impact of statin related media coverage on use of statins: interrupted time series analysis with UK primary care data.2016

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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