Open AccessINDICATIONS OF PRESCRIPTION OF STATINS IN TERTIARY CARE CENTRE OF NORTH INDIA
Author(s) -
Shilpa Atwal,
Jitender Thakur
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v6i1.2392
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , statin , coronary artery disease , diabetes mellitus , secondary prevention , primary prevention , disease , cardiology , pharmacology , endocrinology
Background: To determine the indications for which statins are being prescribed
Methods: Study was conducted on Patients with indications for statins presenting to cardiology OPD,Medicine OPD and Endocrinology OPD and started on statins at PGIMER, Chandigarh, within a period of 9 months.
Results: In our study, out of 243 prescriptions, 55.1%(n=134) were prescribed statins for secondary prevention and 44.9%(n=109) had statins prescribed for primary prevention. Overall coronary artery disease (37.03%) was the leading indication followed by Diabetes mellitus without ASCVD(70.64%).Other indications of secondary preventionincluded newly diagnosed statin naïve patients diagnosed with stable coronary artery disease ,unstable coronary artery disease /acute coronary artery disease , ischemic cardiovascular accidentsand peripheral arterial disease .64.22 percent patients in primary prevention group were diabetics in our study .
Concluded: We concluded that secondary prevention was found to the more common indication of statin prescription than primary prevention (ratio 1.22:1).
Keywords: Statin, CAD, Prevention