Open AccessNumber of patients needed to prescribe statins in primary cardiovascular prevention: mirage and reality
Author(s) -
Michel Rossignol,
Michel Labrecque,
Michel Cauchon,
Marie-Claude Breton,
Paul Poirier
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
family practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1460-2229
pISSN - 0263-2136
DOI - 10.1093/fampra/cmx124
Subject(s) - medicine , number needed to treat , confidence interval , relative risk , randomized controlled trial , demography , emergency medicine , sociology
Number of patients needed to treat (NNT) with a statin in primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) is often misinterpreted because this single statistic averages results from heterogeneous studies.
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