Volume 6, Number 4, Oct-Nov-Dec 2009

Selecting targets in cardiovascular risk reduction: guidelines or indicators?
Liz Martin, Michael Mansfield

There is a profusion of guidelines and recommendations setting out targets for managing the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease to help us manage our patients. But which ones should we follow? In this article, we compare the treatment thresholds and targets in these different recommendations, consider the reasons for the variety of targets and look at how to rationalise the selection of the targets for an individual patient.

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