More Guideline Controversy: The Tricky Business Of Calculating Cardiovascular Risk

Calculating cardiovascular risk has become a central and highly controversial component of cardiovascular guidelines. Now a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that most of the commonly employed tools seriously overestimate the risk of people today. … Click here to read the full post on Forbes….

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Why Guidelines Should Be Waged Like War

(Updated) Here’s a modest proposal: we need fewer and shorter guidelines. In fact, I’d like to propose that guidelines, like war, should be waged only when there is absolute consensus and overwhelming evidence. Anyone interested in the subject is aware that guidelines are in a complete mess. Just in the past two weeks I’ve written about…

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