Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective

Although statins reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, they are expensive. How should trial evidence on statins be applied to a resource-poor setting?

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Autor principal: Ong, H. T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
Materias:
Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16478294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030050
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spelling pubmed-13709192006-03-30 Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective Ong, H. T PLoS Med Policy Forum Although statins reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, they are expensive. How should trial evidence on statins be applied to a resource-poor setting? Public Library of Science 2006-03 2006-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC1370919/ /pubmed/16478294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030050 Text en Copyright: © 2006 H. T. Ong. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title_full Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title_fullStr Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title_short Evidence-Based Prescribing of Statins: A Developing World Perspective
title_sort evidence-based prescribing of statins: a developing world perspective
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1370919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16478294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030050
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