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Lower statin threshold shown to be cost-effective
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Lower statin threshold shown to be cost-effective

by Will Doss, Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Expanding prescription of statin medication to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol could be a cost-effective intervention against cardiovascular disease, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the journal Circulation. “Thinking about how we can use our limited healthcare resources cost-effectively is very important for structuring healthcare,”...

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Screening younger women for hereditary cancers may be cost effective

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Population-wide screening for genetic variants linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may be cost effective in women between the ages of 20 and 35, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. However, screening for older women was not cost-effective, the researchers found, since the majority of risk-reducing mastectomies and salpingo-oophorectomies occur...