Personalized absolute benefit of statin treatment for primary or secondary prevention of vascular disease in individual elderly patients

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the absolute treatment effect of statin therapy on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE; myocardial infarction, stroke and vascular death) for the individual patient aged ≥70 years. METHODS: Prediction models for MACE were derived in patients aged ≥70 years with (n = 2550...

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Autores principales: Stam-Slob, Manon C., Visseren, Frank L. J., Wouter Jukema, J., van der Graaf, Yolanda, Poulter, Neil R., Gupta, Ajay, Sattar, Naveed, Macfarlane, Peter W., Kearney, Patricia M., de Craen, Anton J. M., Trompet, Stella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5226996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27554244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00392-016-1023-8

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