Personalized prediction of lifetime benefits with statin therapy for asymptomatic individuals: a modeling study.
BACKGROUND: 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 causes. We aimed to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3531501?pdf=render |