FOURIER: Genetic risk score predicts ASCVD patients who will benefit from evolocumab therapy
22 Nov 2019
bởiStephen Padilla
Evolocumab treatment over 2.3 years does not seem to benefit atherosclerotic patients without multiple clinical risk factors or high genetic risk, and these individuals also have a low event rate. However, those with high genetic risk, irrespective of clinical risk, have a high event rate and receive large relative and absolute benefit from this therapy, thus alleviating such risk, according to a study presented at the 2019 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association.