Patient Beliefs About Cholesterol Lowering
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Patient Beliefs About Cholesterol Lowering
IRAS ID
185450
Contact name
Tim Reynolds
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Queen's Hospital
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 31 days
Research summary
Statins are often in the news. There was a massive uproar in the press when NICE recommended that the risk threshold for treatment with statins was reduced to 10%. Many patients are now given statins and they constitute a major expense for the NHS but many people aregue that they are bad for patients, that we are overtreating and disease-mongering just to get patient to take drugs, for the benefit of 'Big Oharma's' shareholders.
This study is simply a survey of patients with 'high' cholesterol levels to see whether they have been given treatment / have tried it and could not tolerate it, and to see what risk patients think is the right leveL for treatment to be considered [as opposed to the level that an expert committee (NICE) of believers in the importance of cholesterol lowering believes].
REC name
South Central - Berkshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/SC/0513
Date of REC Opinion
14 Aug 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion