title: [Adherence to statin treatment and associated factors in female users from the Unified Health System (SUS)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the adherence rate of a statin treatment and possible related factors in female users from the Unified Health System.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-one women were evaluated (64.2 ± 11.0 years) regarding the socio-economic level, comorbidities, current medications, level of physical activity, self-report of muscular pain, adherence to the medical prescription, body composition and biochemical profile. The data were analyzed as frequencies, Chi-Squared test, and Mann Whitney test (p<0.05).
  
  
  RESULTS
  15.5% of women did not adhere to the medical prescription for the statin treatment, whose had less comorbidities (p=0.01), consumed less quantities of medications (p=0.00), and tended to be younger (p=0.06). Those patients also presented higher values of lipid profile (CT: p=0.01; LDL-c: p=0.02). Musculoskeletal complains were not associated to the adherence rate to the medication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The associated factors to adherence of dyslipidemic women to statin medical prescription were age, quantity of comorbidities and quantity of current medication.
authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, mrb_unesp@yahoo.com.br.
authors: Mariana Rotta
authors: MR
authors: Bonfim
authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista, Bauru, SP, Brazil.
authors: Arina
authors: A
authors: Hansen
authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, mrb_unesp@yahoo.com.br.
authors: Bruna Camilo
authors: BC
authors: Turi
authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista, Bauru, SP, Brazil.
authors: Gabriel de Souza
authors: Gde S
authors: Zanini
authors: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors: Acary Souza Bulle
authors: AS
authors: Oliveira
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors: Sandra Lia do
authors: SL
authors: Amaral
authors: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors: Henrique Luiz
authors: HL
authors: Monteiro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016903:Drug Monitoring
chemical_list: D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors