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📢 New Study Alert 🩺💊 In JAMA Internal Medicine, a national analysis reveals that using the PREVENT risk calculator (vs Pooled Cohort Equations) dramatically reduces the number of U.S. adults aged 40–59 eligible for aspirin in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Among 7.6 million current aspirin users, >96% wouldn't qualify by PREVENT 🤯. Time to rethink our calculators and consider deprescribing where net benefit is questionable.
📰 Read more: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternmed/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.5049
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