UNDERUTILIZATION OF LIPID-LOWERING DRUGS IN OLDER PERSONS WITH PRIOR MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION AND A SERUM LOW-DENSITY-LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL GREATER-THAN-125 MG DL/

Authors
ARONOW WS
Citation
Ws. Aronow, UNDERUTILIZATION OF LIPID-LOWERING DRUGS IN OLDER PERSONS WITH PRIOR MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION AND A SERUM LOW-DENSITY-LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL GREATER-THAN-125 MG DL/, The American journal of cardiology, 82(5), 1998, pp. 668
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
82
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1998)82:5<668:UOLDIO>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A prospective study of 500 consecutive persons (aged 60 years with Q-w ave myocardial infarction admitted to a long-term health care facility ) investigated the prevalence of the use of a lipid-lowering drug at t he time of admission in persons with a fasting serum low-density lipop rotein (LDL) cholesterol >125 mg/dl measured the day after admission. The prevalence of a lipid-lowering drug in persons with myocardial inf arction and an LDL cholesterol >125 mg/dl was 7% (11 of 153 persons) i n persons 60 to 80 years of age and 3% (6 of 182 persons) in persons 8 1 to 100 years of age.