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Published in: Archives of Public Health 1/2015

01-12-2015 | Oral presentation

The healthy user and healthy adherer bias: a nested case-control study among statin users in the Rotterdam Study

Authors: Loes Hollestein, Ömer Baser, BHCh Stricker, T Nijsten

Published in: Archives of Public Health | Special Issue 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. …
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Title
The healthy user and healthy adherer bias: a nested case-control study among statin users in the Rotterdam Study
Authors
Loes Hollestein
Ömer Baser
BHCh Stricker
T Nijsten
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Archives of Public Health / Issue Special Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 2049-3258
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/2049-3258-73-S1-O6

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