final nice guidance on statins released
we have discussed the draft nice guidance on statins before that suggests reducing (potentially) the threshold for statin prescription to a 10% 10 year CV risk (currently 20% 10 year risk).
The final guideline is just published
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4694
and sticks with this threshold giving an estimated number needed to treat of 77 people to avoid one death/stroke/non-fatal MI after 3 years.
What do you think?
sadian
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