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May 12 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Importance of Primary Prevention Therapies in the Elderly

The American Geriatric Society had a meeting and at that meeting there was a discussion because they're working on preliminary recommendations for deciding on statin therapy. One of the things they talked about using to help sort out statin decisions is a clinical frailty scale. Do not order CAC scans in older people period. Most older people have coronary calcification and all it will do is tempt doctors to do more testing and create worry in patients who don't have disease.

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