NICE "ruled out use of a lifetime risk score because of a lack of evidence of interventions" But PHE do it anyway!! > http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006204.article#.UzLZMqh_ua8 …
>No evidence for earlier intervention, but let's ID cases? Is this starting to feel uncomfortably like searching for sales opportunities?
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"JBS3 risk calculator is a tool to help communicate the risk of CVD & the benefits of interventions" What 'benefits'? http://www.jbs3risk.com/
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>"..opportunity to reduce/delay future CVD events by early appropriate lifestyle changes and drug treatments" What 'early drug treatments'??
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@C7RKY Its another of the new 1 year old organizations created by Health and Social Care Act 2012. -
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@arcjn1 Is it? I don't understand what the point of having NICE is, if Public Health England are just going to ignore their advice anyway? -
GPs have expressed concern it could lead to further pressure to ‘medicalise’ patients by putting them on statin or other treatments
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