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Fig. 1: No. of deaths from coronary artery disease (CAD) prevented over 5 years among people aged 18–74 years receiving statin therapy according to the 2000 and 2003 Canadian recommendations and the 2003 New Zealand guidelines. This assumes that all eligible people were screened and were compliant with the statin therapy recommended and that the drug cost was $1.52 per day. Thick solid rules represent people at high risk for CAD, thinner solid rules represent people at moderate risk, and dotted rules represent people at low risk; for the 2000 Canadian recommendations, the categories of high and very high risk have been combined.