Evidence on Prescribing Statins - The Bottom Line

When should you prescribe statins? Should they be used in elderly patients? If a patient’s CK is elevated, should the statin be stopped? Get the “bottom line” evidence to these and other statin prescription scenarios.

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In veterans aged ≥75 years without prior history of ASCVD, the initiation of a statin was associated with significantly lower overall and cardiovascular mortality.
Association of Statin Use With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in US Veterans 75 Years and Older. Orkaby AR, Driver JA, et al: JAMA; 2020;324 (July 7): 68-78.