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Dec 9, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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Is Statin Prescription a Good Thing?

I remain shocked at how few patients that I have this discussion with have not been shown their 10-year risk and their risk reduction was statins. That to me is more important than whether they took it. Nearly all policies ought to ultimately be studied for better health outcomes, lest you end up with something like the hospital readmissions penalty program that might actually increase mortality.

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