Time, And Price, Are Right To Prescribe Statins To the Masses
Executive Summary
With cheap, proven statins aplenty, cost constraints are “off the table” when it comes to vastly broadening primary prevention, authors of new cholesterol guidelines say at the 2013 AHA meeting. However, evidence for drugs to lower triglycerides and boost HDL is lacking, and focus should be on lifestyle change, they say.
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