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NICE calls for greater use of statins
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the UK, claiming
roughly 180,000 lives a year. Current guidelines advise doctors to give statin
tablets to an estimated seven million people who have a 20 per cent risk of
developing heart disease in the next ten years. NICE now recommends that those
with a ten per cent risk should be offered the drug.
The NHS currently spends about £450 million on statins every year, which would
stand to increase significantly if the new guidelines are followed– although it
is not yet clear how many more people would be prescribed statins under the new
rules.
Some medical practitioners expressed concern over the NICE recommendations. Prof
Simon Maxwell of the British Pharmacological Society said: "Patients should be
helped to make a truly informed decision about the benefits and risks of taking
long-term preventative therapy that will not make them feel any better in the
short term. We should avoid misapplication of such a recommendation without
proper individual patient counselling."
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