… Unfortunately, patients who need lipid-lowering therapy are likely to need it long-term, …
medication regimen. This article reviews some major studies of compliance for lipid-lowering drugs…

… drugs negatively affect compliance ( 18, 19). In the present study the number of prescribed
drugs was inversely correlated with compliance… poorly with their lipid lowering therapy. This is …

… and lipid-lowering treatment … drug therapy is poor in clinical practice Citation[8-10]. The
aim of this article is to emphasize the lack of compliance with prescribed lipid-lowering …

… noncompliance with TLC and lipid-lowering medication also … to treatment, and compliance
rates are higher than those … has identified reduced patient compliance as a major reason why …

… of non-compliance with a lipid-lowering therapy, a prospective … the compliance associated
with a lipid lowering drug (… The criterion for evaluating compliance is to measure clinic …

… We measured compliance using a method called the medication possession ratio (MPR), …
taking lipid-lowering drugs divided by total days of follow-up. We defined good compliance (GC…

… studies of compliance interventions for lipid-lowering and antihypertensive medications that
were … Because antihypertensive and lipid-lowering therapies are both used to treat chronic, …

Sackett20 defined compliance as ‘the extent to which a … Therefore, for the purposes of this
chapter, the term ‘compliance’ … advice and in accordance with the definition applied by Sackett. …

… sive agents14-17 and other drugs,18-21 but for lipid- lowering agents, only two short- term
… to evalu ate the re la tion ship be tween com pli ance and the lipid- lowering re sponse to flu …

… of lipid lowering drugs and the introduction of clear guidelines in recent years, lipid lowering
… When sufficient information was given, results were at times not consistent with our own …