Australian general practitioners initiate statin therapy primarily on the basis of lipid levels; New Zealand general practitioners use absolute risk

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Monash University, the University of Auckland, the University of Melbourne, and the NHMRC research grant "Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for cardiovascular disease; GNT1084347". Philip Clarke was supported by NHMRC Fellowship GNT1079621. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.