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Old Fri, Apr-25-14, 06:16
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Default Are Cardiologists refusing to follow new guidelines?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...TDbN/story.html

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WASHINGTON -- Criticism over new cholesterol treatment recommendations appears to be growing, judging by remarks made by cardiologists this week at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, the group that issued the new guideline last November along with the American Heart Association. Doctors are supposed to use the guideline to help them determine whether to prescribe statins for patients without heart disease to prevent future heart attacks or strokes. But cardiologists complain that a new risk calculator tool — which takes into account age, race, gender, and heart risks such as high blood pressure and cholesterol — overestimates cardiovascular risks, especially in older Americans. “I don’t know anyone who’s using it,” Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at UCSF School of Medicine, said during an interview at the meeting. “I still use the old Framingham risk score to assess heart attack risk.” (The latest version of Framingham is more than a decade old and doesn’t predict stroke risk.)


More at above link. Unfortunately about plant-based diets, no need to quote
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Old Fri, Apr-25-14, 08:49
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I'm always glad to hear of rebellion in the ranks.
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Old Fri, Apr-25-14, 09:21
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This may be too simplistic, but surely if statins worked, we would have seen a huge drop in the numbers suffering from CVD, heart problems, death from...... So have we????

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