Monday, July 13, 2015

JAMA - "Guideline-Based Statin Eligibility, Coronary Artery Calcification, and Cardiovascular Events"

"Guideline-Based Statin Eligibility, Coronary Artery Calcification, and Cardiovascular Events"

"Conclusions and Relevance  In this community-based primary prevention cohort, the ACC/AHA guidelines for determining statin eligibility, compared with the ATP III, were associated with greater accuracy and efficiency in identifying increased risk of incident CVD and subclinical coronary artery disease, particularly in intermediate-risk participants." 

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2396478

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