Comment of Vincenza Snow, senior medical associate in the ACP scientific policy department, on the importance of controlling cardiovascular risk factors; Evidence that the recommendations are based on; View of Nathaniel Clark, national vice president for clinical affairs for the American Diabetes ...
clinical and public health recommendations regarding the ‘dangers’ of cholesterol should be revised. This is especially true for women, for whom moderately elevated cholesterol (by current standards) may prove to be not only
Statin Recommendations for Primary Prevention JAMA Editorial August 23, 2022 Patient Information: Statins for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease JAMA JAMA Patient Page August 23, 2022 This JAMA Patient Page summarizes the US Preventive Services Task Force’s recent recommendations on using statins ...
As commented above, patients were grouped according to the dose of simvastatin during hospitalization. There was no significant difference across groups (both in the whole cohort and in non-diabetics) regarding clinical characteristics as well as infarction mass estimated by MRi, reperfusion therapy, a...
had evaluated the risk-based statin eligibility for primary prevention in accordance to the recommendations of different guidelines in 393 nondiabetics patients hospitalized for the first MI, assuming that they had a health check-up a day before acute MI.30 The SCORE risk based European society ...
The variousmechanisms for this effect have been proposed and oneof them is downregulation of glucose transporters bythe statins. The recommendations by the investigatorsare that though statins can have diabetogenic risk,they have more long term benefits which can outweighthe risk. In elderly patients ...
The majority of the diabetic patients (58%) failed to attain an LDL-C<2.5mmol/L, and 77% did not reach the optional goal of LDL-C<2.0mmol/L set by the 2007 recommendations of the European Society of Cardiology. The most frequently used statin was simvastatin, both in patients with and...
BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM), coronary artery disease (CAD), and noncoronary atherosclerotic vascular diseases (NCVDs) have similar risks of cardiovascular events and similar recommendations for lipid control. There are limited data regarding lipid control in diabetic patients with NCVD in ...
Physical training is inversely correlated to all-cause mortality, even among dyslipidemic patients who do not receive statin therapy, and this is significant especially for patients with contraindications for this treatment (such as women of fertile age) or who refuse it despite the recommendations [...