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Pre-Admission Statin Use and In-Hospital Severity of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Disease

BACKGROUND: Statins are drugs that are used to lower plasma cholesterol levels. Recently, contradictory claims have been made about possible additional effects of statins on progression of a variety of inflammatory disorders, including infections. We therefore examined the clinical course of patient...

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Autores principales: Brett, Stephen J., Myles, Puja, Lim, Wei Shen, Enstone, Joanne E., Bannister, Barbara, Semple, Malcolm G., Read, Robert C., Taylor, Bruce L., McMenamin, Jim, Nicholson, Karl G., Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S., Openshaw, Peter J. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018120