Dr. Sydney Burwell, Dean of Harvard Medical School 1956

My students are dismayed when I say to them "Half of what you are taught as medical students will in 10 years have been shown to be wrong.
And the trouble is, none of your teachers know which half."



Thursday, February 27, 2014

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U.K. Geriatrician: Statins, Antihypertensives "Greatly" Overprescribed for Adults 80 and Older
"The data strongly suggest that we are over-treating many healthy patients aged 80+ regarding stroke prevention," concludes U.K. geriatrician Kit Byatt in a perspective published in Evidence-Based Medicine.

Byatt offers a brief review of the evidence, noting that the large HYVET study in China and Europe showed only modest stroke-prevention benefits with antihypertensive therapy in those aged 80 and older. Similarly, the PROSPER trial, a large study of pravastatin in patients aged 70 to 82 in Europe, failed to find a significant stroke-prevention benefit with treatment. Byatt also notes that morbidity associated with statins may be underestimated.  Journal Watch
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