Hypercholesterolaemia screening: proposal for development of a new professional pharmaceutical service

REAL, JUAN PABLO; ROSSETTI, CRISTIAN ALAN; VARGAS, AYLEN MAGALI; JIMENEZ-KAIRUZ, ALVARO; ROBLEDO, JORGE ALBERTO

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research

Wiley-Blackwell

Año: 2020 vol. 50 p. 418 - 418

1445-937X

bjective: To determine the feasibility of the community pharmacist identifying new patients with hypercholesterolaemia (HC) through a screening program (PHI-CAPTCHA). Methods: The study begins with patients who attended any of four pharmacies in the town of Jovita (Argentina) to obtain their lipid-lowering medication between March 1 and April 30, 2017. The genealogical trees of the patients who agreed to participate were determined. Authorisation was requested to review the cholesterolaemia records of their relatives stored in the databases of the Jovita Clinical Analysis Laboratory (1997?2015). The hypothetical efficacy of PHI-CAPTCHA was determined as (i) the proportion of children confirmed to have HC, and (ii) the proportion of patients with at least one child with HC. Results: One hundred and thirty-nine patients of the 274 patients who obtained their lipid-lowering drugs from any of the four pharmacies, met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Of the total number of patients´ r