Table 4.

Statin-Related Perceived Side Effects^* and Willingness for Therapy

	Overall (n=5693)
	Female Patients (n=2460)	Male Patients (n=3233)	p-value
Current statin users	n=1647	n=2535
Experienced any side effect (among all statin users)	774 (50.1%)	1,020 (43.1%)	<.001
Experienced any side effect (among high-intensity statin users)	201 (52.8%)	351 (43.6%)	0.003
Former statin users	n=267	n=197
Stopped due to side effect*	150 (7.9%)	98 (3.6%)	<.001
Willingness to try another statin
Not at all or unlikely	86 (35.2%)	49 (26.6%)	0.03
Possibly	44 (18.0%)	55 (29.9%)
Very likely or almost certainly	104 (42.6%)	74 (40.2%)
Do not know	10 (4.1%)	6 (3.3%)

^* % represents the percentage of patients ever on a statin

All percentages calculated as the percent of non-missing values.