The article deals with topical problems of pharmacotherapy with statins for patients with comorbid pathology, in the practice of doctors of different specialties, and more specifically on the reasons for non-compliance by patients with the recommendations of doctors regarding their admission. The history of statins is considered. Their mechanism of action and pleiotropic effects is described, as well as ways of solving the problem of patients’ compliance with statin therapy in atherosclerosis and dyslipidemia.
