• Public health

Recent articles in Heart by Lawson et al and an editorial by Zaman and Jones have ignited a debate as to the best method of identifying people with high cardiovascular risk in the population.1 2

Zaman and Jones confuse this debate by referring back to the Rose dilemma—that is, whether to concentrate on whole populations or merely those at high risk and also by inferring that the only intervention available is prescription of a statin.3 …