Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/health/risk-calculator-for-cholesterol-appears-flawed.html
Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations released a sweeping new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along with an online calculator meant to help doctors assess risks and treatment options. But, in a major embarrassment to the health groups, the calculator appears to greatly overestimate risk, so much so that it could mistakenly suggest that millions more people are candidates for statin drugs.