Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A relative paucity of evidence guiding the use of statin therapy in the primary prevention of atherosclerotic ...

Controversy around the use of statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is once again in the news, with a new analysis suggesting that statin use in low-risk patients "may be an ...

Primary prevention is crucial to reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide. Primary prevention strategies, aimed at people at risk of but who do not ...

On October 8, the American College of Emergency Physicians more officially joined the ranks of several other medical organizations, including the American Medical Association as well as the American ...

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has published a final recommendation statement on aspirin use to prevent cardiovascular disease. The statement advises against starting aspirin for the ...

(UPDATED) A new analysis is challenging the use of statin therapy for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, with researchers arguing that the lipid-lowering drugs should be more carefully ...

Although global stroke incidence and mortality declined from 1990 to 2013, the stroke burden, in terms of absolute numbers of people affected by stroke, continues to increase rapidly throughout the ...