Objective: To assess whether switching to insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with medication refill compliance of oral hypoglycemic agents. Research Design and Methods: The PHARMO Record Linkage System was used as data source for this study. Patients with newly t
Diabetes mellitus type 2 gaat gepaard met vele complicaties. De samenhangende ziektebeelden vereisen een multifactoriële aanpak. In dit artikel wordt de medicamenteuze behandeling van comorbiditeit bij diabetes mellitus type 2 beschreven met nadruk op de geneesmiddelenkeuzes en de effecten van genee
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether pharmacy records of nitrate prescriptions could be used as a marker of angina pectoris. Method: This study was conducted within the Rotterdam Study, a prospective follow-up study which started in 1991 and included 7983 elderly subjects.
We aimed to assess whether the effectiveness of statins in the prevention of myocardial infarction, stroke and total mortality is influenced by apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype in an elderly population. We used data from the Rotterdam Study, a prospective population-based cohort study in the Netherl
Aims: To assess the level of undertreatment of hypercholesterolaemia in the general population, taking intra-person variability in serum cholesterol concentrations into account, and to identify determinants of undertreatment of hypercholesterolaemia. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data from
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