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Prioritising Cvd Prevention Therapy - Absolute Risk Versus Individual Risk Factors, Jenny Doust, Sharon Sanders, Jonathon Shaw, Paul Glasziou
Prioritising Cvd Prevention Therapy - Absolute Risk Versus Individual Risk Factors, Jenny Doust, Sharon Sanders, Jonathon Shaw, Paul Glasziou
Jenny Doust
Background: Previous studies suggest that a high proportion of persons at high risk of cardiovascular disease in Australia are not receiving adequate disease prevention with blood pressure and lipid lowering therapy. However, it is not clear how a move to an absolute risk factor approach will affect the proportion of the population that is treated with blood pressure and lipid lowering therapy versus treatment based on individual risk factors. Methods: We classified participants in the AusDiab follow up cohort study who had no previous history of cardiovascular disease and who were not taking blood pressure or lipid lowering medication currently …
Systematic Review Did Not Consider Problem Of Treatment Effects, Su May Liew, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou
Systematic Review Did Not Consider Problem Of Treatment Effects, Su May Liew, Jenny Doust, Paul Glasziou
Jenny Doust
Extract: Siontis and colleagues’ systematic review comparing established risk prediction models for cardiovascular disease is a useful validation of previous studies, but they seem to have ignored the problem of treatment effects.