Prospective, noninterventional, uncontrolled, open-chart, pharmacoepidemiologic study of prescribing patterns for lipid-lowering drugs at a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India
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- 作者：Goyal ; Pankaj ; Da ; Geeta Sharma ; Bal ; Baljinderpal S. ; Singh ; Jatinder ; Singh ; Jagjit ; Randhawa ; Gurpreet Kaur ; et. al.
- 关键词：dyslipidemia ; prescribing trend ; lipoprotein(a) ; lipid-lowering drugs
- 刊名：Clinical Therapeutics
- 出版年：2002
- 出版时间：December, 2002
- 年：2002
- 卷：24
- 期：12
- 页码：2064-2076
- 全文大小：878 K
文摘
Background: The guidelines for management of dyslipidemia released by the US National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) have been questioned for their relevance in the South Asian Indian populations because these populations are reported to have significantly different lipoprotein parameters and atherogenic risk factors than Western populations.