Informing on individual cardiovascular risk: from wishful thinking to hard facts

Heartbeat: impact of suboptimal response to primary prevention statin therapy

“…Danchin et al4 point out that any positive effect on lifestyle behaviours might be offset by negative psychological effects—‘the psychological consequences of providing precise information on individual risk estimates have not been extensively studied so far, in the field of cardiovascular medicine’. My personal clinical experience also suggests that the time frame of this study (3 months) might be too short to measure meaningful change.…”