01.12.2015 | Oral presentation
The healthy user and healthy adherer bias: a nested case-control study among statin users in the Rotterdam Study
Erschienen in: Archives of Public Health | Sonderheft 1/2015
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Failure to correct for lifestyle in routinely collected data may lead to the healthy user or healthy adherer bias, because patients who initiate or adhere to preventive therapy (e.g. statins) may have a healthier lifestyle than patients who do not use or adhere to statins, respectively. We aimed to assess if there is a difference in lifestyle between statin users and non-users and between adherent and nonadherent statin users. …Anzeige