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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2015 May;175(5):691–700. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.0289

Table 2.

Patient-Reported Outcomesa

Variable Baseline Mean AUC
AUC Differenceb
Discontinued Statin (n = 189) Continued Statin (n = 192) Estimated (95% CI) P Value
Quality of life

 Overall 6.12 6.53 6.35 0.18 (−0.28 to 0.64) .44

 Physical 5.19 5.43 5.51 −0.08 (−0.43 to 0.26) .64

 Psychological 7.21 7.38 6.99 0.39 (−0.02 to 0.80) .06

 Well-being 7.30 7.37 7.05 0.32 (0.00 to 0.64) .05

 Support 8.31 8.38 7.86 0.53 (0.16 to 0.90) .005

 Total 6.98 7.11 6.85 0.26 (0.02 to 0.50) .04

Symptoms

 Standard 27.2 25.2 27.4 −2.2 (−5.0 to 0.6) .13

 Statin items 7.1 7.0 7.2 −0.2 (−1.4 to 0.9) .71

 All items 34.6 32.4 34.8 −2.5 (−6.0 to 1.1) .18

AKPS score 54.3 47.7 48.5 −0.8 (−4.1 to 2.5) .63

Nonstatin medications

 Total 10.9 10.1 10.8 −0.7 (−1.3 to −0.1) .03

 Regular 8.9 8.4 8.7 −0.3 (−0.8 to 0.3) .34

 PRN, days

  <½c 0.9 0.9 1.1 −0.2 (−0.5 to 0.1) .16

  ≥½d 1.0 0.9 1.0 −0.1 (−0.3 to 0.1) .33

Satisfaction with care (willing to recommend) 4.55 4.63 4.55 0.08 (−0.05 to 0.20) .22

Abbreviations: AKPS, Australia-Modified Karnofsky Performance Status; AUC, area under the curve; PRN, administered as needed.

a

Patient-reported outcome results at baseline (week 0), group estimates at week 20, and AUC mean during 20 weeks modeled using all study data.

b

Discontinued - continued.

c

Number of PRN nonstatin medications that were administered on more than half of the days during the study.

d

Number of PRN nonstatin medications that were administered on less than half of the days during the study.