Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Adults With CKD Taking a Moderate- or High-Intensity Statin: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) StudyPlain-Language Summary

Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events in Adults With CKD Taking a Moderate- or High-Intensity Statin: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) StudyPlain-Language Summary

Rationale & Objective: The 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) cholesterol guideline uses risk stratification to guide the decision to initiate nonstatin lipid-lowering medication among adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). We determin...

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Main Authors: Bharat Poudel, Robert S. Rosenson, Vera Bittner, Orlando M. Gutiérrez, Amanda H. Anderson, Mark Woodward, Rajat Deo, April P. Carson, Katherine E. Mues, Paul J. Dluzniewski, Bernard G. Jaar, Claudia M. Lora, Jonathan Taliercio, Paul Muntner, Lisandro D. Colantonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Kidney Medicine
Subjects:
American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology cholesterol guideline
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
chronic kidney disease
moderate- or high-intensity statin
risk assessment
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590059521001096

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