Children and statins.
Use of statins is increasing among children with familial hypercholesterolaemia who previously have had to take unpalatable resins. In a selected group with no controls, children taking statins had similar scores for quality of life and anxiety as normative scores. The question that remains is how to improve dietary and disease information.


CONCLUSIONS
Children with familial hypercholesterolaemia who are taking statins have no reduction in quality of life or increase in anxiety.
Department of Preventive Cardiology, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. serena.tonstad@ulleval.no
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D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety; D002648:Child; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006938:Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents; D011788:Quality of Life
D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors