{"id":6218,"date":"2025-08-20T23:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/statin-drug-new-guidelines-cardiovascular-disease-prevention\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:34:35","slug":"statin-drug-new-guidelines-cardiovascular-disease-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/statin-drug-new-guidelines-cardiovascular-disease-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"What updated thresholds for statin use could mean for patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    What updated thresholds for statin use could mean for patients<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s a math problem with life-and-death consequences.<\/p>\n<p>When a new and improved model for estimating the risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/leading-cardiologists-reveal-new-heart-disease-risk-calculator\">emerged in November 2023<\/a>, the calculator won raves for drawing on a larger, more contemporary, and more diverse population of Americans than its predecessors. But along with the praise came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/06\/10\/cardiovascular-disease-statins-aha-guidelines\/\">predictions<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/07\/29\/cardiovascular-risk-model-statins-heart-attacks\/\">last year<\/a> that 40% of U.S. adults might no longer qualify for statins, the widely prescribed pills that fight artery-clogging cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/20\/statin-drug-new-guidelines-cardiovascular-disease-prevention\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/20\/statin-drug-new-guidelines-cardiovascular-disease-prevention\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What updated thresholds for statin use could mean for patients It\u2019s a math problem with life-and-death consequences. When a new and improved model for estimating the risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease emerged in November 2023, the calculator won raves for drawing on a larger, more contemporary, and more diverse population of Americans than its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2486,2362,1428,2155],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiovascular-disease","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}