Absolute risk of cardiovascular disease events and blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapy in Australia

Banks, Emily; Korda, Rosemary J; Stavreski, Bill

doi:10.5694/mja16.00789

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The National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) Guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk are the current Australian guidelines, which contain recommendations on assessment of an individual’s absolute risk of having a primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) event in the next 5 years, and on optimal management based on this assessment.1

1 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
2 Sax Institute, Sydney, NSW
3 National Heart Foundation of Australia, Melbourne, VIC

Correspondence: emily.banks@anu.edu.au

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1. National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance. Guidelines for the management of absolute cardiovascular disease risk. Canberra: NVDPA, 2012. https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/images/uploads/publications/Absolute-CVD-Risk-Full-Guidelines.pdf (accessed Nov 2016).
2. Banks E, Crouch SR, Korda RJ, et al. Absolute risk of cardiovascular disease events and blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapy in Australia. Med J Aust 2016; 204: 320. <MJA full text>
3. Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration. Blood pressure lowering and major cardiovascular events in people with and without chronic kidney disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2013; 347: f5680.
4. Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaborators. Efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering treatment: prospective meta-analysis of data from 90,056 participants in 14 randomised trials of statins. Lancet 2005; 366: 1267-1278.

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