New Risk Assessment Suggest Fewer Americans Would Take Statins: Report

Published on June 10, 2024

A new way of predicting cardiovascular risks suggests that 40 percent fewer people need to be on statins to prevent heart disease, according to a Monday study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. “We don’t want people to think they were treated incorrectly in the past. They were treated with the best data we had when the PCE (a cardiovascular risk calculator) was introduced back in 2013,” Dr. Timothy Anderson, lead author of the study, said in a news release. “The data have changed,” he added. Dr. Anderson noted that a person’s risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease can change over time....

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