All-cause mortality should be the primary focus when considering interventions for cardiovascular events.

“if you want to make a case that well maybe it won't hope you'll live longer but it will improve your quality of life because it will reduce your chance of having cardiovascular risk cardiovascular event that you may survive but impacts your quality of life right I think that's fair that's fair but the problem gets back to what I was talking about the top in the talk there's no study that's ever going to track every bad thing that can happen to you that includes non cardiovascular events so I always start with all cause mortality”