Personalized Prediction of Lifetime Benefits with Statin Therapy for Asymptomatic Individuals: A Modeling Study

BACKGROUND: Physicians need to inform asymptomatic individuals about personalized outcomes of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, current prediction models focus on short-term outcomes and ignore the competing risk of death due to other causes. We aimed to...

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Autores principales: Ferket, Bart S., van Kempen, Bob J. H., Heeringa, Jan, Spronk, Sandra, Fleischmann, Kirsten E., Nijhuis, Rogier L. G., Hofman, Albert, Steyerberg, Ewout W., Hunink, M. G. Myriam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001361

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001361

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