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General Practitioners’ adherence to prescribing guidelines for statins in the United Kingdoms

2019-05-03

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Objective</h4> In this retrospective cohort study we aimed to assess, in 202,247 people who started a statin therapy between 2007-2014, the factors that led to the initiation of the drug. To do this we explored CVD risk factors singularly and in combinations as recorded in electronic health records in the year before they receive their first prescription and we compared the risk scores with...

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c0795e2d-9b78-5030-901f-7f9ed61689ed
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10.1101/625236
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