Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication

The USPSTF recommends that:
For adults aged 40 to 75 years who have 1 or more cardiovascular risk factors (ie, dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, or smoking) and an estimated 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk of 10% or greater:
Initiate a statin.
Grade: B

For adults aged 40 to 75 years who have 1 or more cardiovascular risk factors (ie, dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, or smoking) and an estimated 10-year CVD risk of 7.5% to less than 10%:
Selectively offer a statin.
Grade: C

For adults 76 years or older:
The evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against starting a statin.
Grade: I

Id: cardiovascular-prevention-statin-use

Identifier: ark:StatinUse

Type: https://kgrid.org/koio#KnowledgeObject

Version: v1.9

Date: 2024-12-12

License: license.md

Creator Information

Name: Knowledge Systems Lab

Affiliation: Knowledge Systems Lab, University of Michigan Medical School

Email: kgrid-developers@umich.edu

Website: https://kgrid.org

Services

ActivatorService

Type: https://kgrid.org/koio#Service

Depends on: statin_use_for_the_primary_prevention_of_cardiovascular_disease

Implemented by: https://github.com/kgrid-objects/USPSTF-collection/blob/main/cardiovascular-prevention-statin-use/ActivatorService

CLIService

Type: https://kgrid.org/koio#Service

Depends on: statin_use_for_the_primary_prevention_of_cardiovascular_disease

Implemented by: cardiovascular_prevention_statin_use.py

APIService

Type: https://kgrid.org/koio#Service

Depends on: statin_use_for_the_primary_prevention_of_cardiovascular_disease

Implemented by: cardiovascular_prevention_statin_use.py

Knowledge

statin_use_for_the_primary_prevention_of_cardiovascular_disease

Type: https://kgrid.org/koio#Knowledge

Implemented by:

Source: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication#fullrecommendationstart

Format: text/html

Date: 2022-08-23

Creator Information:

Name: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Documentation

Using USPSTF Knowledgebase Package: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

This Google Colab tutorial demonstrates three different ways to use the cardiovascular-prevention-statin-use knowledge object:

  • using the built-in command-line interface (CLI) service
  • using the python activator
  • using the knowledge object's knowledge representation directly in the code

README.md

read me file.

Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication

This is the USPSTF documentation webpage for cardiovascular disease prevention statin use recommendation.

Tests

Knowledge test

These tests are written to test the accuracy of the knowledge implementation.

Implementation tests

These tests are written to test the use of superclass KO to implement this knowledge object.