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Mary Hawking wrote:
> In message
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> Martin Goldman <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Indeed.
>> I was just commiserating with the way that elderly family members can
>> easily get overmedicalised, especially when there is a medical child
>> lurking in the background (or a lawyer).
>> My 89 year old father in law was recently started on Simvastatin.
>
> What *is* the EBM? Even if he had had a stroke or suffered from a LTC?
> I'm busy exception reporting patients of >90 with an eGFR
> consistently less than 60ml/min...
> MaryH
>
It would be an indication that old people are less likely to suffer
strokes or MIs than younger people, for a given set of risk factors.
Let me know if anyone finds that!
Alternatively, it would be a clearly reasoned explanation of why at a
specific age something that was sensible and beneficial before that
becomes non-sensible and unbeneficial after it.
Or it might be Economics-Based-Medicine.
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