Cholesterol
Mail-order pharmacy for new statin prescriptions achieve better cholesterol control
Published in Drug Week, August 12th, 2011
2011 AUG 12 -- OAKLAND, Calif. - Kaiser Permanente Northern California patients who obtained new statin prescriptions via a mail-order pharmacy achieved better cholesterol control in the first 3-15 months following the initiation of therapy - compared to those patients who only obtained their statin prescription from their local Kaiser Permanente Northern California pharmacy.
Greater adjusted rates of LDL-C control in mail-order pharmacy users were seen across all gender and race-ethnicity groups, according to the study that appears in the current online issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Source: Drug Week (2011-08-12)
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