Statin Therapy: Diabetes Mellitus Risk and Cardiovascular Benefit in Primary Prevention.

CONCLUSIONS: Prescribing low-dose statins for primary prevention of CVD is beneficial in patients at high risk and may be detrimental in patients at low CV risk. In patients with intermediate CV risk, our data support current recommendations of individualizing treatment decisions. PMID: 30084572 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Israel Medical Association Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Isr Med Assoc J Source Type: research