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New Information on Statins and Cardiovascular Risk – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1169 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1169 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma    Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Franki Frank Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble This blog post is based on a recent article published in JAMA - Journal of American Medical Association. Link to article at the end. Rethinking Risk: How New Equations Could Alter Cardiovascular Prevention Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Deciding who should receive preventive therapy, like statins, depends heavily on risk estimation models. For years, clinicians have relied on the Pooled Cohort Equations (PCEs), developed in 2013, to estimate a person’s 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). But medical science e...

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Aging Population 1 - Challenges – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1167 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1166 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma    Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Leeloothefirst Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Preamble This blog post is based on several Pakistani studies, UN report and McKinsey report. Links at the end. The Emerging Crisis - Aging, NCDs, and the Widening Care Gap in Developing Nations Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)1 have historically been characterized by relatively young populations. But recently, declining birth rates and rising life expectancies have been fundamentally restructuring these countries’ population pyramids. In the coming decades, the number of older people in LMICs is expected to more than double to 1.3...

Understanding Women’s Health Gap – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #995 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #995 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Cedric Fauntleroy Credit: Ivan Samkov Credit: Michelle Leman 26 August was Women’s Equality Day. Their health gap is a major challenge in achieving equality. Links of resources for this post at the end. Women live longer than men, but they spend 25 percent more of that time in poor health. Closing this gap can add more healthy years to their lives. It must be recognized that women’s health is not just a scaled down version of men’s health, but that it is biologically distinct and different. McKinsey Health Institute – MHI – in collaboration with World Economic Forum, has done detailed research and analysis on country-wise situation of women’s health, the...