Francisco, 64 years old, comes to your office for a preventive health evaluation. He has a history of wellcontrolled hypertension and is otherwise well. His past medical history is unremarkable. No family history of cardiovascular disease or smoking and LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) of 90 mg/dL. After discussing with the patient, you are unsure if this patient’s risk benefit profile would favor the use of statins. Instead of trusting your personal feelings, you decide to use the Framingham risk score (FRS) to decide if statins would be recommended.1 The calculated Framingham score is 8.1% and you decide not to initiate statins at this point.
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