Using data from NHANES and extrapolating from JUPITER, Eric Michos and Roger Blumenthal have calculated that 6.5 million additional adults could be candidates for statin therapy. The paper appears online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. By treating people with elevated hsCRP who are otherwise considered low risk, “this strategy could potentially prevent 260,000 events at 5 years.”
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