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Numbers needed to treat for statins
Statins: numbers needed to treat and personal decision making
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4980 (Published 05 August 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g4980
- Raj S Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher professor of public health1
- 1Edinburgh Ethnicity and Health Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
- Raj.Bhopal{at}ed.ac.uk
As a South Asian in Scotland I am at risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) according to the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study.1 2 Cardiologist friends and colleagues have advised statins. So I looked for numbers needed to treat (NNTs) to guide me, as called for by Tresidder,3 and found them in a review by Enas.4 These numbers have …
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