Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: guidelines reaffirm the use of the pooled cohort equations for the US population, and state that they should be used as a "starting point, not as the final arbiter, for decisionmaking in primary prevention of ASCVD."To address the uncertainties and to help provide more information to patients who are on the fence about statins, there's new advice for people with LDL-C levels of 70 mg/dL or higher and a 10-year ASCVD risk of 7.5% through 19.9%.Among these intermediate-risk patients, "risk-enhancing" factors can tip the decision-making scales in favor of statins, according to
Source: JAMA
Author: Eli Y. Adashi
Institution: Brown University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2917268560