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. 2016 Dec 9;38(29):2259–2263. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw568

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Proportion (%) of patients with first myocardial infarction who would have qualified for risk-based statin therapy before the event. The guideline-recommended risk thresholds for primary prevention with statins are shown next to the bar diagram. QRISK is recommended by 2014 UK-NICE2, PCE (pooled cohort equations) by 2013 ACC/AHA1. Adapted from Mortensen et al.16 Data were compared by Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA with Dunn’s post-hoc test for multiple comparisons (SCORE low-risk as control group). *** indicates P < 0.0001 and ** indicates P < 0.01.