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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 13, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(24):2605-2606; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi596
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Who wants to be normal?

Staffan Lindeberg*

Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

* Corresponding author E-mail address: staffan.lindeberg@med.lu.se

This editorial refers to ‘Does implementation of the European guidelines based on the SCORE model double the number of Norwegian adults who need cardiovascular drugs for primary prevention? The Tromsø study 2001'{dagger} by Hartz et al., on page 2673

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Is the average elderly Norwegian at high risk of cardiovascular disease after 60 years of age? Will most of these men and women need health care or even drug treatment in order to lower serum lipids and/or blood pressure? Well, according to the present guidelines of the European Heart Association, this actually seems to be the case.1 Hartz et al.2 show that in Tromsø, Norway, the vast majority of men >60 years, and females >70, have a 10-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease exceeding 5%, the suggested limit for intervention. We can argue about the exact figures, including the (unpublished) confidence interval of the 5% limit, but the main message is clear: it is normal to be at ‘high’ risk. And what is true for Norway would be true for most other . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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