Research: New Risk Calculator Estimates Millions are Being Overtreated with Statins

Clinical Implications of Revised Pooled Cohort Equations for Estimating Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: New risk calculator could change the aspirin, statins, and blood pressure medications some people take – STAT (free) AND Statin recommendations may change, especially for African-Americans – CNN (free) AND Millions could have incorrect statin, aspirin and blood pressure prescriptions – Stanford Medicine, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Current models overestimate CVD risk of 11.8M US adults – Cardiovascular Business (free)