{"id":36495,"date":"2013-05-07T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=36495"},"modified":"2013-05-07T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:25:20","slug":"selections-from-richard-lehmans-literature-review-may-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/05\/07\/selections-from-richard-lehmans-literature-review-may-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from Richard Lehman\u2019s Literature Review: May 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CardioExchange is pleased to reprint selections from Dr. Richard Lehman\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/category\/richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals\/\" target=\"_blank\">weekly journal review blog<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/\">BMJ.com<\/a>. Selected summaries are relevant to our audience, but we encourage members to engage with the\u00a0<a title=\"Lehman_8282012\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2013\/05\/07\/richard-lehmans-journal-review-7-may-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BMJ\u00a0 4 May 2013\u00a0 Vol 346<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When to Remeasure CV Risk in Untreated People at Low and Intermediate Risk:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/346\/bmj.f1895\">This study<\/a> was carried out in Australia using data from Massachusetts and Tokyo, and it shows that you don\u2019t need to go remeasuring cardiovascular risk more than about every 10 years in low-risk groups. This is a really useful analysis. In higher-risk groups, measure more often if you have decided not to treat: above all, involve the patient in making any decisions, and help all smokers to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Richard discusses a study on remeasuring CV risk in untreated people at low and intermediate risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-36495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cardiovascular-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495","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\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}