Questioning Medicine

We stuck purely to the evidence. There was no evidence panel or committee to vote on the evidence like is often done by the American college of rheumatology and no expert opinion statements where their only citation is themselves like can be seen with the ACC. This was purely 100% evidence recommendations. So lets start try to make it quick because guidelines on a podcast a boring, I want to hit the high points and get out of here This guideline does not cover 1) adults < age 40 years old o2) patients with ejection fraction <35%3) pts with life expectancy less than 5 years4) Patients with genetic dyslipidemia conditions were also excluded Now to the recomendations . test a serum Cholesterol level every ten years!! Yes 10yrs. If you are testing more frequently than that you are likely seeing variability in the test and not a true change. Cholesterol levels are stable! If you see a change it is because you are seeing a change in the point estimate—remember it might say ldl 100 but there are CI around th