Patients' perspectives on statin therapy for treatment of hypercholesterolaemia: a qualitative study.

Background: Health Care Practitioners' attempts to implement secondary prevention targets for coronary heart disease (CHD) may be restricted by low rates of persistence with statin therapy. There is a need to understand why some patients, despite having established CHD and elevated cholesterol, do not comply with their prescribed statin regimen.

Aim: To explore patients' perspectives on compliance with statin therapy.