title: A Statin a Day to Keep the Doctor Away? Comparing Aspirin and Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
abstract: For the primary prevention of cardiovascular (CV) disease, aspirin reduces the risk for major vascular events by approximately 15% to 20% with an absolute reduction of approximately 0.1%. Major bleeding occurs at an excess of approximately 2 cases per 1000 patient-years with aspirin therapy. For primary prevention, statin therapy has been shown to reduce the risk of CV events by approximately 30% to 40% with an absolute reduction of 1% to 2%. Rhabdomyolysis is rare, with an incidence of 3.4 cases per 100 000 patient-years. Compared with aspirin, statins have a more favorable risk-to-benefit profile for primary prevention.
authors: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA ead1129@ufl.edu.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Dietrich
authors: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.
authors: Kyle
authors: K
authors: Davis
keywords: aspirin; bleeding; cardiovascular disease; primary prevention; rhabdomyolysis; statins