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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/32739
A large meta-analysis suggests that statins provide substantial
benefit for primary prevention, prompting researchers to question
current guidelines.
For individuals without a history of cardiovascular disease, statins
reduced the risk of vascular and all-cause mortality by 15% and 9%,
respectively, for every 1 mmol/L reduction in low-density lipoprotein
(LDL) cholesterol, according to Borislava Mihaylova, MSc DPhil, and
colleagues on the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaborators
writing team.
Overall, in the five baseline risk groups, there was a 21% reduction
in the relative risk of major vascular events and all-cause death,
irrespective of age, baseline LDL, or previous cardiovascular disease
for every 1 mmol/L reduction in LDL cholesterol (P<0.001), they reported online in The Lancet.
In addition, each 5-year risk group separately had significant reductions in major vascular events.
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