The efficiency of cardiovascular risk assessment: do the right patients get statin treatment?

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate targeting of statin prescribing for primary prevention to those with high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. DESIGN: Two cohort studies including the general population and initiators of statins aged 35–74 years. SETTING: UK primary care records in the Clinical Practice Resear...

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Autores principales: van Staa, Tjeerd-Pieter, Smeeth, Liam, Ng, Edmond S-W, Goldacre, Ben, Gulliford, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23735939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-303698

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23735939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-303698

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