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Use of the Joint British Society cardiovascular risk calculator before initiating statins for primary prevention in hospital medicine: experience from a large university teaching hospital

INTRODUCTION: Statin therapy is a well established treatment for hyperlipidemia. However, little is known about prescribing of statins for primary prevention in the real world, and even less about what happens to patients requiring primary prevention who are seen in a secondary care setting. The pur...

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Autores principales: Garg, Pankaj, Raju, Prashanth, Sondej, Ewa, Rodrigues, Erwin, Davis, Gershan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21189835
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S14589