MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH STATIN INTOLERANCE- RESULTS FROM A SURVEY OF CLINICIANS IN SIX EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Author(s)

Rosenson RS1, McKendrick J2, Gandra SR3, Dent R3, Wieffer H2, Catapano AL4, Oh P5, Hovingh GK6, Stroes E6
1Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA, 2PRMA Consulting, Fleet, UK, 3Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, 4University of Milano and IRCCS Multimedica, Milano, Italy, 5Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6Academic Medical Center, Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

OBJECTIVES: To understand how clinicians in six European countries manage patients with statin intolerance (SI). METHODS: Clinicians from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, and Switzerland were recruited for a web-based survey between 2015 and 2016. Participants were asked how they manage patients with confirmed SI. Both specialists (cardiologists) and general/family physicians (GPs) (60 per country) participated and were required to have treated ≥5 patients presenting with symptoms of SI in the previous year. All participants provided informed consent. RESULTS: Clinicians estimated that, on average, 50% (range across countries [RAC] 43–61%) of their high-risk patients with confirmed SI continue to receive statins at a dose below the recommended therapeutic dose. On average, 69% (RAC 60–83%) of high-risk patients with confirmed SI receive a non-statin lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) alone or in combination with a low-dose statin; a small proportion (11%) do not receive any LLT (RAC 5–15%). Specialists and GPs use non-statin LLTs with similar frequency. In all countries except the Czech Republic, the majority of clinicians (85% of specialists and 73% of GPs) reported that ezetimibe was their first choice of non-statin LLT; in the Czech Republic, fenofibrate was preferred by GPs (selected as first choice by 84%) and ezetimibe by specialists (selected as first choice by 80%). Across commonly used non-statin LLTs in all countries, 13–67% of clinicians’ patients were considered to reach lipid goals, and 19–63% of patients were satisfactorily treated in the opinion of the clinician. CONCLUSIONS: Non-statin LLT was commonly prescribed with concomitant low-dose statin in all countries; ezetimibe was the most commonly used non-statin monotherapy in most countries.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2016-10, ISPOR Europe 2016, Vienna, Austria

Value in Health, Vol. 19, No. 7 (November 2016)

Code

PCV157

Topic

Health Service Delivery & Process of Care

Topic Subcategory

Treatment Patterns and Guidelines

Disease

Cardiovascular Disorders

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