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Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are falling through the cracks, according to an Australian study that concludes general practice management of these patients is “suboptimal”.           

In a review of 2015-2018 data for 10,631 primary care patients with established CVD, a team from the University of Notre Dame in Sydney found that only 57% had been prescribed the recommended treatments according to the 2012 CVD guidelines.

Writing in the MJA, the authors report that just 10.5% of these patients received only statins and 12.6% received only antihypertensives. Around 20% received no medication at all.