Does Statin Initiation Undermine Dietary Behavior?

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: All English Speaking Adults From the Manhattan VA Clinic Who Have Recently Received Their First Prescription for a Statin

Treatments: Behavioral: Drug and Dietary behavior

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00224159

00710

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to improve our understanding of the effects that taking cholesterol reducing pills have on dietary behavior as well as other health related behaviors

Full description

This study explores the impact of initiating statin therapy on subsequent dietary as well as other lifestyle beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.

Specific aims:

1. To test whether the initiation of statin therapy increases dietary saturated fat intake among statin naive patients.
2. To determine what role attitudes, beliefs, expectations, motivation, intention and self-efficacy regarding drug or diet therapy may play in observed changes in dietary behavior after starting statin therapy.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All English-speaking adults who have recently (within 1 week)received their first prescription for a statin will be eligible.

Exclusion criteria

Will include a history of any of the following:

1. Prior CVD (myocardial infarction, angina, angioplasty, stroke, CABG. or arterial bypass surgery)
2. Diabetes patients
3. Psychiatric patients
4. AIDS patients
5. Substance abuse patients
6. Prior cholesterol lowering medication use
7. Inability to complete the interviews