If you're at risk of heart disease, your health care team might use the pooled cohort equation (PCE) tool to determine your long-term risk and whether taking statins—cholesterol-lowering medication—is a good option.
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A recent study based on real-world community patient data confirms the effectiveness of the Pooled Cohort Equation (PCE), developed by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology in 2013.
Oct 3, 2023
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Among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), high-intensity statins are underutilized in routine care, according to a study published online Aug. 2 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Sep 19, 2023
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Patients who have suffered a heart attack should immediately be offered a combination of cholesterol lowering drugs with statins and ezetimibe, according to research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sep 6, 2023
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Cholesterol-lowering statins might protect patients with ulcerative colitis from developing and dying from colorectal cancer. Statin treatment was also associated with a lower risk of death regardless of cause in patients ...
Sep 1, 2023
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People who have had a stroke called an intracerebral hemorrhage who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may have a lower risk of having another stroke, especially ischemic stroke, compared to people who also had ...
Aug 30, 2023
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For older versus younger adults, low- to moderate-intensity statins are associated with a greater reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), according to a study published online Aug. 1 in the Annals of Internal ...
Aug 1, 2023
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For several race-ethnicity-gender groups, statin use disparities are not explained by measurable differences in medical appropriateness of therapy, access to health care, or socioeconomic status, according to a study published ...
Jul 25, 2023
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The risk of cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction and stroke, has been shown to be roughly twice as high in people living with HIV than the general population, creating an urgent need to test prevention ...
Jul 24, 2023
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One of the world's largest studies on the impact of cholesterol-lowering medication has highlighted an issue with a new class of drugs that could impair lung function in some patients.
Jul 20, 2023
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