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IMPROVE-IT: will it prove anything?

Professor Anthony S. Wierzbicki, London UK Comments on the IMPROVE-IT debate Cardiovascular disease (CVD) guidelines are emphasising the use of clinical outcome data on major vascular events (American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology)1 or hard CVD events alone (UK NICE)2 . They have begun to…

Posted on 3 August 2014 | Posted by Anthony Wierzbicki | Posted in Hot topics, Article Archive

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