Statin non-adherence ?major problem? in diabetes patients

[Northerner]

GPs should closely monitor patients with diabetes after initiating statin treatment as the risk of discontinuation is around 70%, say researchers.

Dutch researchers conducted an observational study on 3,300 patients aged over 40 years who had at least one prescription for an oral diabetes treatment.
Discontinuation was classified as an interval of 180 days or more between the end of a prescription and the dispensing date of the next prescription, and this occurred more frequently in patients treated with statins, compared with oral diabetes drugs.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...-adherence-major-problem-in-diabetes-patients

 

[Pumper_Sue]

The authors concluded that this showed non-adherence with statin treatment was a ?major problem' in patients with diabetes, despite this group being at increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

I wonder if anyone has told the author of the dreadful side effects many people have on these drugs? You never know perhaps this is why they were stopped 🙄