Table 4.

Patients given specific information about their statin by their healthcare provider at time of first prescription

	Total Patients, N = 5014	Current Statin Users, n = 4706	Past Statin Users, n = 308
Why the particular statin was being prescribed to me	33	33	29
How the particular statin worked	24	25	22
That there are different types of statins	21	22	15
That the particular statin could potentially interact with other medications and supplements	18	18	20
How the particular statin prescribed was different than others	10	10	9
Cannot remember	36	36	34
None of these	15	15	19

Data are presented as %.