Viewpoint: Personalizing Statin Therapy
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Viewpoint: Personalizing Statin Therapy
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), associated with vascular atherosclerosis, is the major cause of death in Western societies. Current risk estimation tools, such as Framingham Risk Score (FRS), based on evaluation of multiple standard risk factors, are limited in assessment of individual risk. The majority (about 70%) of the general population is classified as low FRS where the individual risk for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2076-9172
DOI: 10.5041/rmmj.10108