New cholesterol guidelines and the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease - A commentary on epistemic aspects

作者：Nunes Jose Pedro L^*

来源：Preventive Medicine, 2014, 69: 314-316.

DOI：10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.06.035

• Cholesterol
• Guidelines
• Statins

The recommendations contained in the 2013 cholesterol guidelines may be described as either with or without a direct empirical clinical trial basis. Recommendations without a direct empirical clinical trial basis tend to be controversial. Recommendations with and without a direct empirical clinical trial basis are mixed in the same text while at the same time (rightfully) rejecting previous recommendations, also without a direct empirical clinical trial basis.

• 出版日期2014-12