Recommendations for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in primary care: a systematic guideline review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study systematically reviews and synthesizes recommendations from national and international clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) regarding the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in adults in primary care settings.

Methods

CPGs were retrieved from MEDLINE, Trip, guideline repositories, and websites of guidelines-producing societies. Two reviewers independently screened the guidelines for eligibility, assessed their quality, and extracted study characteristics and relevant recommendations for further consistency analysis. Recommendations, with their strength and evidence level, were thematically coded and clustered around clinical questions using ATLAS.ti.

Results

We included 26 CPGs from which we extracted 581 recomme

SUBMITTER: Bredehorst M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11792287 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature