Statins are rarely prescribed for incidentally discovered covert cerebrovascular disease: a retrospective cohort in a large electronic health record (EHR) identified using natural language processing

Statins are rarely prescribed for incidentally discovered covert cerebrovascular disease: a retrospective cohort in a large electronic health record (EHR) identified using natural language processing

Introduction While incidentally discovered covert cerebrovascular diseases (id-CCD) are associated with future stroke, it is not known if patients with id-CCD are prescribed statins.Methods Patients age ≥50 with id-CCD on neuroimaging from 2009 to 2019 with no prior ischaemic stroke, transient ischa...

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Main Authors: David F Kallmes, David M Kent, Hongfang Liu, Lester Y Leung, Wansu Chen, Eric Puttock, Patrick Luetmer, Sunyang Fu, Chengyi X Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-11-01
Series:BMJ Neurology Open
Online Access:https://neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/6/2/e000855.full
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