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PHYSICIANS OFFICE NEWS BRIEFS

ew Guidelines
Expand Statin Eligibility
by 13 Million

increase. Eligible adults aged 60 to 75 years
without cardiovascular disease would
increase from 30.4 to 87.4 percent for men
and from 21.2 to 53.6 percent for women.
The ACC-AHA guidelines would have a
higher sensitivity and lower specificity than
the ATP-III guidelines in that they would
recommend statin therapy for more adults
who would be expected to have future
cardiovascular events, but include many
who would not have future events.
"The new ACC-AHA guidelines for the
management of cholesterol would increase
the number of adults who would be
eligible for statin therapy by 12.8 million,
with the increase seen mostly among older
adults without cardiovascular disease," the
authors write.

The American College of
Cardiology and the American Heart
Association (ACC-AHA) new cholesterol
guidelines would increase the number of
Americans eligible for statin therapy by
nearly 13 million, according to research
published online March 19 in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
Michael J. Pencina, Ph.D., from Duke
University in Durham, N.C., and colleagues
used data from the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Surveys (2005 to 2010)
to compare the number of persons and the
risk-factor profile for persons who would be
eligible for statin therapy under the new ACCAHA guidelines versus under the Third Adult
Treatment Panel (ATP III) guidelines.
The researchers found that the new
guidelines would increase the number of
adults eligible for statin therapy from 43.2
to 56.0 million. Adults without
cardiovascular disease would drive this

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