Does the metabolic syndrome help to select patients requiring high statin dose?
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Does the metabolic syndrome help to select patients requiring high statin dose?
Statins offer remarkable protection against cardiovascular disease, with an acceptablesafetyprofile. People requiring statins are those at high risk of cardiovascular disease, irrespective of baseline lipid levels. This statement being accepted, two remaining key questions are: how to best stratify risk individually and how aggressive statin therapy should be according to baseline individual ri...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69293-3