A Simple Disease-Guided Approach to Personalize ACC/AHA-Recommended Statin Allocation in Elderly People: The BioImage Study

The 2013 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines recommend primary prevention with statins for individuals with ≥7.5% 10-year risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Everyone living long enough will become eligible for risk-based statin thera...

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Published in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2016-08, Vol.68 (9), p.881-891
Main Authors: Mortensen, Martin Bødtker, Fuster, Valentin, Muntendam, Pieter, Mehran, Roxana, Baber, Usman, Sartori, Samantha, Falk, Erling
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
American Heart Association
Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis - epidemiology
Atherosclerosis - prevention & control
Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease
Coronary Artery Disease - epidemiology
Coronary Artery Disease - prevention & control
Coronary vessels
Disease prevention
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Health risk assessment
Heart attacks
Humans
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - therapeutic use
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Older people
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Primary Prevention
Prospective Studies
Risk Assessment
ROC Curve
Statins
Time Factors
United States - epidemiology
Veins & arteries
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