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Statins for over 75s
Statins for over 75s: the data don’t justify medicalising a whole population
BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2311 (Published 29 May 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l2311
- Nick Mann, general practitioner
- London E9 7TA, UK
- drnickmann{at}gmail.com
Hawkes looks behind the megaphone headlines about giving statins to older people and gives a very different picture to patients from the crafted health paradigm. 1
Something would have to be very good to justify medicalising a whole population, but statistical validity can be achieved here only by taking a figure of 12% relative risk reduction (0.1% absolute risk reduction) from averaging data that …
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