Este editorial comenta los multiples beneficios de las estatinas en prevencion primaria, pero yo no perderia de vista los conflictos de interes de la editorialista.
JAMA Network | JAMA | Accumulating Evidence for Statins in Primary Prevention
Sus reflexiones y argumentos se basan en el articulo de taylor Articulo donde la autora, que trabaja en uno de los centros mas relevantes de epidemiologia si que describe los NNT que no comenta el editorial, y comenta tambien las limitaciones del trabajo y las necesidades de disponer de estudios coste eficacia que apoyen o descarten estas estrategias.
El tema de las nuevas guias de colesterol, sus nuevos pacientes diana y sus nuevas tablas de evento aterosclerotico se comentan en el editorial y en el articulo y creo que van a ser muy difundidas a la industria y de ella a todos nosotros. Por tanto esperamos oir mucho este proximo año de las nuevas guias y las nuevas tablas de prediccion de riesgo.
No tan de deprisa, no tan deprisa, que no está tan claro.
ResponderEliminarEn una editorial reciente de BMJ pone peros a la generalización del uso de estatinas en la primera parte y en la segunda habla de los conflictos de intereses que pudiera haber.
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Statins for all over 50? No
BMJ 2013; 347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f6412 (Published 23 October 2013)
Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f6412
1. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
2. Should you prescribe statins to everyone over the age of 50, even those at low cardiovascular risk? A new Cochrane review seems to suggest that you should. An article in this week BMJ cries caution (doi:10.1136/bmj.f6123).
3. Current guidance from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the American Heart Association recommends statins only when the 10 year risk of cardiovascular disease is 20% or greater. But since these guidelines were written, a large meta-analysis of individual patient data reached a different conclusion. Published in the Lancet in 2012, the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) Collaboration meta-analysis found that statins significantly reduced major cardiovascular events and all cause mortality in people at low risk, a benefit which, the paper said, “greatly exceeds any known hazards of statin therapy.”
4. As John Abramson and colleagues explain, it’s this meta-analysis that led the Cochrane reviewers to embrace the idea that statins should be used far more widely, even perhaps to everyone over 50, as a Lancet editorial suggested at the time.
5. But Abramson and colleagues’ detailed critique of the CTT meta-analysis should give us pause. Their own analysis of the data finds no evidence of a reduction in all cause mortality or in the total number of serious events. They also highlight the failure of the trials included in the CTT analysis to adequately report important harms of statin treatment, including myopathy and diabetes. They conclude that broadening the use of statins to low risk individuals “will unnecessarily increase the incidence of adverse events without providing overall health benefits.”
6. There is a concern underlying their critique that will be familiar to BMJ readers. It is that all of the trials included in the CTT meta-analysis were funded by the manufacturer of the statin being studied. They list the various ways in which these trials might have exaggerated the benefits of statins and minimised the harms, and they summarise what low risk patients need to know. Top of the list is the benefit of lifestyle change, something that the dominance of industry sponsored clinical trials too often obscures.
7. None of this does much to bolster confidence in the published literature. Nor am I reassured by discussions at two recent meetings co-hosted by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA). Drug company AbbVie is suing the European Medicines Agency to stop summary reports of its clinical trials becoming publicly available (doi:10.1136/bmj.f1636). AbbVie’s lawyer made clear that the company considers even the data on adverse events to be commercially confidential. Despite industry’s claims to be in favour of greater transparency, EFPIA and its American counterpart PhRMA are supporting Abbvie. The BMJ and BMA have joined forces to intervene on behalf of the EMA (doi:10.1136/bmj.f4728).
8. As for a way forward, I can’t improve on the list of solutions proposed by Richard Lehman when emailing out his journal review blog this week (http://bit.ly/HcKvjy): “All phase 3 trials to be designed and conducted independently of manufacturers, using the best available comparator. Research priorities to be determined by patients (James Lind Alliance). Value-based pricing. All data available from all trials, with meta-data: IPD [individual patient data] level for qualified independent centres. Big increase in comparative effectiveness research, much more research into non-pharmacological treatments.”
Salva Miralles
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ResponderEliminarPero todos los avances se tienen que ver con cautela.
Para hacer balance, lee una articulo crítico.
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Salva Miralles
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