This committee report emphasizes that conditions such as CKD, PAD, AAA, and prior stroke are significant high-risk conditions for cardiovascular disease in the Japanese population, warranting aggressive risk factor management.
Supports aggressive risk factor management in these Japanese patients; extends secondary prevention strategies to equivalent-risk primary settings.
Epidemiological studies and interventional trials conducted in Western countries and the results of a meta-analysis of these studies have revealed that the incidence of cardiovascular events in patients with a history of CAD is higher than that observed in primary prevention patients.
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