Pretreatment with statins improves early outcome in patients with first-ever ischaemic stroke: a pleiotropic effect of statins or a beneficial effect of hypercholesterolemia?

BACKGROUND: Data from different studies suggest a favourable association between pretreatment with statins or hypercholesterolemia and outcome after ischaemic stroke. We examined whether there were differences in in-hospital mortality according to the presence or absence of statin therapy in a large...

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Autores principales: Arboix, Adrià, García-Eroles, Luis, Oliveres, Montserrat, Targa, Cecília, Balcells, Miquel, Massons, Joan
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/PMC2905355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-10-47

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-10-47

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