John Abramson and colleagues argue that statins have no overall health benefit in this population and that prescribing guidelines should not be broadened The 2013 Cochrane review of primary prevention with statins concluded that they reduce all cause mortality and cardiovascular events without increasing ...
The group with “decreasing” LDL-C levels showed changes in statin prescribing over the follow-up period: between 2012 and 2017, the proportion of patients without statin treatment decreased while there was an increase in high-intensity treatment among men (6.2% vs 28.7%, respectively) and wome...
Fourth, this study cannot provide any knowledge about the statin use patterns in hospital or at discharge because the CPRD only contains community prescribing information. Fifth, the actual statin use might be overestimated as our analyses were based on the pre- scription data. It was possible ...
Geriatric education appears to have influenced prescribing patterns at this facility, with geriatric-trained providers adhering more closely to evidence-based guidelines for older patients. As geriatric educational content is incorporated into nongeriatric specialty areas, pharmacology and prescribing ...
To investigate if a National Health Service (NHS) Health Board are compliant with current guidance on the prescribing and monitoring of HIST in ACS patients. METHODS. A retrospective audit of all new ACS diagnoses in the NHS Ayrshire & Arran in June 2022 was undertaken using inpatient ...
Two models were performed: the first one using real LDL-C levels measured at admission (which we theorized cardiologists were using as a reference for prescribing LLT at discharge) and the second one using corrected basal LDL-C levels before admission. Patients were then categorized according to...