High Risk versus Proportional Benefit: Modelling Equitable Strategies in Cardiovascular Prevention.

OBJECTIVE:To examine the performances of an alternative strategy to decide initiating BP-lowering drugs called Proportional Benefit (PB). It selects candidates addressing the inequity induced by the high-risk approach since it distributes the gains proportionally to the burden of disease by genders...

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Main Authors: Ivanny Marchant, Jean-Pierre Boissel, Patrice Nony, François Gueyffier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4631497?pdf=render