- Joseph Jonathan Lee, general practitioner with an interest in cardiology
- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
- joseph.lee{at}phc.ox.ac.uk
Bretthauer and Kalager discuss the communication of risk.1 I think one difficulty is that most measures used in research are irrelevant to patients.
Risk differences and ratios at 10 years are useful for setting policy. They are also useful for people who don’t care whether their cardiovascular event happens tomorrow or in nine years’ time and have no interest in their lives after the next decade.
If someone takes statins …