{"id":6522,"date":"2011-02-17T15:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:33","slug":"quarter-of-u-s-adults-45-and-older-taking-statins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/02\/17\/quarter-of-u-s-adults-45-and-older-taking-statins\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter of U.S. Adults 45 and Older Taking Statins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One-quarter of U.S. adults age 45 and older are taking statins, and one-half of men ages 65 to 74 are taking these drugs, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/hus.htm\">the CDC&#8217;s annual report on trends in health statistics<\/a>. From 1988 to 1994, only 2% of adults age 45 and older were taking statins.\u00a0High cholesterol levels have been declining, according to the CDC, but hypertension, diabetes, and obesity have all increased. The overall prevalence of heart disease has remained stable in all groups except for an increased rate in men age 75 and older.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/PublicHealthPolicy\/PublicHealth\/24913\">An article in Medpage Today<\/a> includes comments from Christopher Cannon, James Stein, Robert Califf, and Harlan Krumholz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Statin-Use.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6527\" title=\"Statin Use\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Statin-Use-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Cholesterol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6530\" title=\"Cholesterol\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Cholesterol-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Hypertension.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6531\" title=\"Hypertension\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Hypertension-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Lifetime-Prevalence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6533\" title=\"Lifetime Prevalence\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/02\/Lifetime-Prevalence-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-quarter of U.S. adults age 45 and older are taking statins, and one-half of men ages 65 to 74 are taking these drugs, according to\u00a0the CDC&#8217;s annual report on trends in health statistics. From 1988 to 1994, only 2% of adults age 45 and older were taking statins.\u00a0High cholesterol levels have been declining, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[701,210,290,584],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-cdc","tag-cholesterol","tag-epidemiology","tag-statins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}