Table 3.

Distributions (number and proportion) of statin doses as simvastatin equivalents at initiation and after 1 year of follow-up according to statin prescriptions redeemed by all patients with diabetes and by those without cardiovascular disease at statin initiation between 2005 and 2008 and surviving the following first year

	Real-world patients with diabetes (all)		Real-world patients with diabetes and without cardiovascular disease
Total number of patients	N=45 463		N=33 219
Simvastatin (C10AA01) equivalent dose*	At initiation	After follow-up	At initiation	After follow-up
5 mg	142 (<1)	185 (<1)	105 (<1)	142 (<1)
10 mg	12 180 (27)	11 079 (24)	9645 (29)	8671 (26)
20 mg	23 671 (52)	23 065 (51)	17 803 (54)	17 364 (52)
40 mg	7178 (16)	8508 (19)	4097 (12)	5261 (16)
80 mg	2017 (4)	2197 (5)	1409 (4)	1518 (5)
>80 mg	225 (<1)	368 (<1)	120 (<1)	216 (<1)

*For equivalence, atorvastatin 10 mg=fluvastatin 80 mg=lovastatin 40 mg=pravastatin 40 mg=simvastatin 20 mg ≤rosuvastatin 5 mg.²⁹