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What is Atorvastatin?

Atorvastatin is an antilipemic agent used for the treatment of lipid disorders, including hyperlipidemia or primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
High Cholesterol 257 49 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 64 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Hypercholesterolemia 59 7 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
General health 41 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Hyperlipidemia 18 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Increased lipids in blood (hyperlipidemia) 15 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell

See all 475 patients currently taking Atorvastatin

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Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Atorvastatin. See all 18 dosages ►

  daily 10 mg m,w,f 5 mg daily 10 mg daily 15 mg daily 20 mg daily 30 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily 80 mg daily
  8 Number of Patients: 8 2 Number of Patients: 2 5 Number of Patients: 5 166 Number of Patients: 166 2 Number of Patients: 2 150 Number of Patients: 150 2 Number of Patients: 2 106 Number of Patients: 106 2 Number of Patients: 2 35 Number of Patients: 35  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Atorvastatin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 39   Doctor's advice: 34%
Side effects too severe 33   Side effects too severe: 28%
Other 18   Other: 16%
Expense 17   Expense: 15%
Did not seem to work 10   Did not seem to work: 9%
Personal research 10   Personal research: 9%
Change in health plan coverage 9   Change in health plan coverage: 8%
Course of treatment ended 5   Course of treatment ended: 4%
Not indicated 3   Not indicated: 3%

See all 109 patients who’ve stopped taking Atorvastatin

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Atorvastatin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking Atorvastatin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Atorvastatin

Always
 60 77%
Usually
 10 13%
Sometimes
 2 3%
Never
 6 8%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Atorvastatin

Very
 2 3%
Somewhat
 3 4%
A little
 9 12%
Not at all
 64 82%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Atorvastatin

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 3 5%
$50-99
 4 7%
$25-49
 13 23%
< $25
 35 63%

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Report created on May 25, 2012.