Statins for Cardiovascular Disease—It’s All Relative - Frankly Speaking Ep 280 - a podcast by Pri-Med
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Credits: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Overview: Statins are widely used for lowering cholesterol in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease. While the benefit is more established with secondary prevention compared with primary prevention, most of the benefits are reported in relative risk reduction, which can exaggerate the benefit to an individual person. In this podcast, you’ll hear a discussion of a recent systematic review that looked at the absolute risk reduction and relative risk reduction with statins for preventing death, myocardial infarctions, and stroke.
Episode resource links:
- Byrne, P. , Demasi, M. , Jones, M. , et al. Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment. JAMA Internal Medicine
Guest: Alan Ehrlich MD, FAAFP
Music Credit: Richard Onorato
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