Preoperative statin is associated with decreased operative mortality in high risk coronary artery bypass patients

BACKGROUND: Statins are widely prescribed to patients with atherosclerosis. A retrospective database analysis was used to examine the role of preoperative statin use in hospital mortality, for patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG.) METHODS: The study population comprise...

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Autores principales: Magovern, James A, Moraca, Robert J, Bailey, Stephen H, Dean, David A, Simpson, Kathleen A, Maher, Thomas D, Benckart, Daniel H, Magovern, George J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2841066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-8

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