Statin adherence among patients with hypertension in Swedish primary health care: a QregPV cohort study using explainable machine learning
Johan Sandslätt, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Maria Åberg, Johan-Emil Bager, Koen Simons, Georgios Mourtzinis, Per Hjerpe, Tobias Andersson · 2026
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Johan Sandslätt and co-authors study statin adherence in Swedish primary care in a 2026 paper. Cholesterol-lowering statins only help if patients keep taking them. Evidence on adherence among people with high blood pressure in routine care was limited.
Registers from a large Swedish region covered about thirty thousand patients who started statins in the early twenty-teens. Adherence over two years was measured by days covered with dispensed medicine. Machine learning methods that explain their own drivers picked out which traits predicted stopping. The paper names the strongest predictors, giving clinics targets for follow-up with patients most likely to quit quietly.
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| CREATOR | Johan Sandslätt, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Maria Åberg, Johan-Emil Bager, Koen Simons, Georgios Mourtzinis, Per Hjerpe, Tobias Andersson |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |