Not as far as I know. With a modestly diligent search, I haven't found any
'evidence' about using 10 year risk at all. It's in the guidelines, and the
not recalculating advice came from a hospital colleague who runs a
hypertension/cardiovascular risk clinic. If you know of anything, I'd be
very interested to see it.
There is a BMJ article that touches on this
http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/324/7353/1570.pdf
although I'm not sure that their proposed approach would actually be any
easier to use in practice.
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Neill Booth
To: Bruce Guthrie
Sent: 29/08/2003 07:26
Subject: Re: FW: Statin Benefits in primary prevention
Dear Bruce Guthrie,
I found your letter to the EBH list interesting and informative - I am
currently undertaking a cost-effectiveness analysis of Finnish
evidence-based guidelines for antihypertensive interventions and am
therefore interested in the benefits of primary prevention.
I was wondering if the advice you had received about recalculating risk
after treating one risk factor was evidence-based? - Any further
details
would be warmly received!
Best regards,
Neill
Tampere School of Public Health
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
tel. +358-3-2157339
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