Truth: These guidelines provide recommendations based on a
new risk calculator developed to estimate the future of a heart attack or
stroke risk. If your estimated risk falls in the upper third of adults,
the guidelines suggest consideration of statins.
Of course, everyone in the upper third of risk should take
a statin, because, as the guidelines emphasize that number alone
does not determine a specific treatment. Patients and their physicians or other
health care providers to determine individualized treatment together.
The guidelines are simply a tool, based on the best data
currently available to help make these decisions.
Our goal is to have
more good people - those who benefit most - and least bad people taking these
drugs.
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