Strict adherence to the new risk-based American College of Cardiology–American Heart Association guidelines for managing cholesterol would increase the number of adults eligible for statin therapy by nearly 13 million, a study suggests.
Most of the increase would be among older adults without cardiovascular disease, Michael J. Pencina, Ph.D., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute of Duke University, Durham, N.C., and his colleagues reported online March 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The investigators used fasting data from 3,773 adults aged 40-75 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of 2005-2010 to estimate the number of individuals for whom statin therapy would be recommended under the
new guidelines, published in November 2013, compared with the previously recommended 2007 guidelines from the Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program./.../
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