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Effect of statin treatment on short term mortality after pneumonia episode: cohort study

Objective To determine whether statins protect against all cause mortality after a diagnosis of pneumonia. Design Cohort study using propensity score based method to control for differences between people prescribed and not prescribed statins. Setting United Kingdom Health Improvement Network databa...

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Autores principales: Douglas, Ian, Evans, Stephen, Smeeth, Liam
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21471172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d1642