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The co-author of the study (Ridker) and the Brigham have already issued a Press Release disputing the reporter's spin. Ridker portrays the calculator issues as

• carbocation 13y ago
  > Paul Ridker, MD, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, strongly supports the key messages of the new guidelines and believes that questions raised about the risk calculator should be relatively easy to address. Dr. Ridker is an advocate of expanded statin use in primary prevention, a major advance of the new ACC/AHA guidelines. Good link. Basically we have the person who is cited in the linked article (Dr. Ridker) on record as supporting the new guidelines and finding the errors in the model easy to address. This is an important counterpoint to the sensationalist NYT article from the very person whom they are citing to further their stance. At MGH, we have already had two noon conferences on the topic. The only disagreement that I've heard with regard to the new guidelines is from those who believe that, on top of the guidelines, there should still be LDL targets for more people, and the targets should be lower than they ever have been before.