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Treatment gaps and potential cardiovascular risk reduction from expanded statin use in the US and England

BACKGROUND: The updated national guidelines for cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid modification in the UK and US expand the indications for statin therapy in primary prevention to adults with moderate risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but many adults at high CVD risk remain untreated in bot...

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Autores principales: Ueda, Peter, Lung, Thomas Wai-Chun, Lu, Yuan, Salomon, Joshua A., Rahimi, Kazem, Clarke, Philip, Danaei, Goodarz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29561843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190688