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Net benefit of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people 75 years or older: a benefit–harm balance modeling study

BACKGROUND: We determined the risk thresholds above which statin use would be more likely to provide a net benefit for people over the age of 75 years without history of cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS: An exponential model was used to estimate the differences in expected benefit and harms in...

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Autores principales: Yebyo, Henock G., Aschmann, Hélène E., Menges, Dominik, Boyd, Cynthia M., Puhan, Milo A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31598209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2040622319877745