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Treatment gaps and potential cardiovascular risk reduction from expanded statin use in the US and England
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Background: The updated national guidelines for cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid modification in the UK and US expand the indications for statin therapy in primary prevention to adults with moderate risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but many adults at high CVD risk remain untreated in both countries. We set out to identify treatment gaps in English and American adults at moderate and high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and to estimate the number of CVD events that would ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0190688
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
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- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e0190688
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-22
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1932-6203
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pubs:829010
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- © 2018 Ueda et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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