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Statins for low risk disease
Increasing the use of statins in people at low cardiovascular risk is difficult
BMJ 2013; 347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f6901 (Published 19 November 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f6901
- Azeem Majeed, professor of primary care1
- 1Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK
- a.majeed{at}imperial.ac.uk
Although statins reduce cardiovascular events even in people at low risk,1 population benefits from their more widespread use will occur only if a sufficiently high proportion of people at lower cardiovascular risk (whether based on a formal risk assessment or on age alone) are prescribed statins.2 …
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