The March 11 issue of the British Medical Journal contains a series of articles on cardiovascular risk. They review the management of this risk together with the usefulness of absolute risk assessment charts when making clinical decisions on cardiovascular disease prevention.
What's in the medical press? - The rapidly changing situation in primary care means that it is often difficult to keep up to date with what is happening politically and clinically. This section of Primary Care Pharmacy will try to pick out a few articles that may be useful in day-to-day practice or have importance for the primary care role.