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Population Impact & Efficiency of Benefit‐Targeted Versus Risk‐Targeted Statin Prescribing for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

BACKGROUND: Benefit‐targeted statin prescribing may be superior to risk‐targeted statin prescribing (the current standard), but the impact and efficiency of this approach are unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: We analyzed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) using an open‐source...

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Autores principales: Pletcher, Mark J., Pignone, Michael, Jarmul, Jamie A., Moran, Andrew E., Vittinghoff, Eric, Newman, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28188251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.004316