Age-Stratified Risk Categories for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Therapies

JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Dec 1;9(12):1069-1070. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.3544.

Cian P McCarthy¹, Kazem Rahimi², John W McEvoy^{3

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
² Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Reproductive and Women's Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health and School of Medicine, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁴ Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Centre for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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This Viewpoint describes age-specific risk thresholds for cardiovascular disease prevention therapies.