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. 2017 Nov 30;14(5):962–970. doi: 10.5114/aoms.2017.71855

Table II.

Patients treated with high, moderate or low doses of statins either used in monotherapy or in combination with ezetimibe or fenofibrate

Parameter Statin therapy overall Statin monotherapy Statin with ezetimibe Statin with fenofibrate P-value
Number of patients N (%) 204 91 (44.6) 99 (48.5) 14 (6.9)
Number of patients on different doses of statin N (%) High 116 (56.9) 39 (42.9) 71 (71.7) 6 (42.9) < 0.001
Moderate 81 (39.7) 48 (52.7) 27 (27.3) 6 (42.9)
Low 7 (3.4) 4 (4.4) 1 (1.0) 2 (14.3)

Doses of statins were applied and assigned as high, moderate, or low based on the guidelines by the Blood Cholesterol Expert Panel from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) [14].