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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

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3 Patients with ASCVD are at a higher risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) including heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and cardiovascular (CV) death.4 4 In the U.S. Historically I have witnessed patients with systemic inflammatory disorders, and I know how they affect the cardiovascular system.

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Do Statins Cause Dementia?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

I do apologise for being direct, but this issue is one of the most frequent barriers I encounter to initiating cholesterol-lowering therapy. A therapy that has been proven repeatedly to reduce the probability of heart attacks and strokes in multiple double-blind randomised controlled studies 1. Let’s break this down.

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Researchers Develop Universal Risk Predictor for Cardiovascular Disease

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Clinicians currently use two separate risk models to assess patients’ chances of having heart attacks , strokes , and other major cardiovascular events. The ARIC participants included some cases with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and some without.