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Ole Faergeman

Researcher at Aarhus University

Publications -  77
Citations -  25445

Ole Faergeman is an academic researcher from Aarhus University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Simvastatin & Cholesterol. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 77 publications receiving 25007 citations. Previous affiliations of Ole Faergeman include Aarhus University Hospital.

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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Third Joint Task Force of European and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.

TL;DR: It is of great importance that guidelines and recommendations are presented in formats that are easily interpreted, and their implementation programmes must also be well conducted.
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European guidelines on cardiovascular disease and prevention in clinical practice.

TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Massimo F. Piepoli (Chairperson), Arno W. Hoes (Co-Chairperson) (The Netherlands), Stefan Agewall (Norway) 1, Christian Albus (Germany)9, Carlos Brotons (Spain)10, Alberico L. Catapano (Italy)3, Marie-Therese Cooney (Ireland)1, Ugo Corrà (Italy).
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Cholesterol Lowering With Simvastatin Improves Prognosis of Diabetic Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A subgroup analysis of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

TL;DR: It is suggested that cholesterol lowering with simvastatin improves the prognosis of diabetic patients with CHD and the absolute clinical benefit achieved by cholesterol lowering may be greater in diabetic than in nondiabetic patients withCHD because diabetic patients have a higher absolute risk of recurrent CHD events and other atherosclerotic events.
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Prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: recommendations of the Second Joint Task Force of European and other Societies on Coronary Prevention.

TL;DR: The Task Force has summarized the most important clinical issues on coronary heart disease prevention on which there is good agreement in order to give cardiologists and physicians, and other health care professionals, the best possible advice to facilitate their work on coronaryHeart disease prevention.