Using the Coronary Artery Calcium Score to Guide Statin Therapy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

BACKGROUND: The coronary artery calcium score (CAC) predicts future coronary heart disease (CHD) events and could be used to guide primary prevention interventions, but CAC measurement has costs and exposes patients to low-dose radiation. METHODS AND RESULTS: We estimated the cost-effectiveness of m...

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Hauptverfasser: Pletcher, Mark J., Pignone, Michael, Earnshaw, Stephanie, McDade, Cheryl, Phillips, Kathryn A., Auer, Reto, Zablotska, Lydia, Greenland, Philip
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4156513/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24619318
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000799
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