Personalized prediction of lifetime benefits with statin therapy for asymptomatic individuals: a modeling study.

Personalized prediction of lifetime benefits with statin therapy for asymptomatic individuals: a modeling study.

<h4>Background</h4>Physicians need to inform asymptomatic individuals about personalized outcomes of statin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, current prediction models focus on short-term outcomes and ignore the competing risk of death due to other...

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Main Authors: Bart S Ferket, Bob J H van Kempen, Jan Heeringa, Sandra Spronk, Kirsten E Fleischmann, Rogier L G Nijhuis, Albert Hofman, Ewout W Steyerberg, M G Myriam Hunink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001361&type=printable
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