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Residual cardiovascular risk in individuals on lipid-lowering treatment: quantifying absolute and relative risk in the community

OBJECTIVE: The residual cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in individuals on long-term lipid-lowering treatment (LLT) in the general population is not well described. METHODS: We estimated absolute CVD risks by age and sex for different categories of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels...

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Autores principales: Lieb, Wolfgang, Enserro, Danielle M, Larson, Martin G, Vasan, Ramachandran S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2017-000722