Time, And Price, Are Right To Prescribe Statins To the Masses

With cheap, proven statins aplenty, cost constraints are “off the table” when it comes to vastly broadening primary prevention, authors of new cholesterol guidelines say at the 2013 AHA meeting. However, evidence for drugs to lower triglycerides and boost HDL is lacking, and focus should be on lifestyle change, they say.

DALLAS – Discussion of the recently released – and significantly expanded – guidelines for treating cholesterol at the American Heart Association annual meeting suggest that the lower costs associated with statin therapy helped pave the way for aggressive treatment recommendations.

With a heavy emphasis on statins, the new LDL-cholesterol guidelines show that gold-standard proof of reduced risk for major cardiovascular...

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