{"id":1527,"date":"2010-05-14T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/to-treat-or-not-to-treat-a-poll-onprimary-prevention-for-a-hypothetical-woman\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:08","slug":"to-treat-or-not-to-treat-a-poll-onprimary-prevention-for-a-hypothetical-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/05\/14\/to-treat-or-not-to-treat-a-poll-onprimary-prevention-for-a-hypothetical-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"To Treat or Not to Treat: A Poll on&nbsp;Primary Prevention for a Hypothetical Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Redberg\u2019s recent post, <a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/blogPost?postId=624\">Why I Don\u2019t Recommend Statins for Primary Prevention in Women<\/a>, has gotten some attention on CardioExchange. In <a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/blogPost?postId=624#comments\">comments<\/a> on the post, CardioExchange members and contributors support various approaches to preventive interventions for women.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your chance to weigh in: How would you handle a 65-year-old woman who has reasonably controlled hypertension and is taking amlodipine and HCTZ? She\u00a0is a\u00a0nonsmoker and has no history of diabetes and no family history of CAD. LDL, 145; HDL, 48.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/w.php?p=29278\/\">Answer in our poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And. what if the patient were 59 years old instead of 65?\u00a0Add a comment to let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Redberg\u2019s recent post, Why I Don\u2019t Recommend Statins for Primary Prevention in Women, has gotten some attention on CardioExchange. In comments on the post, CardioExchange members and contributors support various approaches to preventive interventions for women. Here&#8217;s your chance to weigh in: How would you handle a 65-year-old woman who has reasonably controlled hypertension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}