Outline the rationale a doctor should use for deciding whether or not to put a patient on blood pressure or cholesterol lowering medications?

They can always refer to the guidelines that created by the American Medical Association or Research group such as American Heart Association. Those two organization have been proven to deliver researches result with a really high credibility. By using the guideline, they can determine whether the patient need the medication or not

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