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Statins are frequently used in cardiovascular prevention, however medication adherence is suboptimal.To examine if different types of prognostic information associated with prescription of a statin by physicians, can influence the self-estimated likelihood of taking the drug as prescribed, and to investigate whether patients want this type of information.A survey was performed in 313 patients diagnosed...
The recently released 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines for management of blood cholesterol have substantially increased the number of adults who are eligible for preventive statin therapy. We sought to determine whether eligibility for statin therapy as determined by the 2013 ACC/AHA guideline recommendation is better aligned with the actual presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) as detected by coronary...
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