Role of Statins in Coronary Artery Disease

Statins have been known to significantly reduce cardiovascular events in patients with cardiovascular disease. This review was undertaken to examine the current evidence for the effect of statins in patients with coronary artery disease. Further research is needed to clarify questions concerning the...

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Autor principal: Lim, Sang Yup
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chonnam National University Medical School 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23678470
http://dx.doi.org/10.4068/cmj.2013.49.1.1
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description Statins have been known to significantly reduce cardiovascular events in patients with cardiovascular disease. This review was undertaken to examine the current evidence for the effect of statins in patients with coronary artery disease. Further research is needed to clarify questions concerning the optimal timing, dosage, and type of statin therapy as well as the problems associated with adverse effects.
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spelling pubmed-36519802013-05-15 Role of Statins in Coronary Artery Disease Lim, Sang Yup Chonnam Med J Review Article Statins have been known to significantly reduce cardiovascular events in patients with cardiovascular disease. This review was undertaken to examine the current evidence for the effect of statins in patients with coronary artery disease. Further research is needed to clarify questions concerning the optimal timing, dosage, and type of statin therapy as well as the problems associated with adverse effects. Chonnam National University Medical School 2013-04 2013-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3651980/ /pubmed/23678470 http://dx.doi.org/10.4068/cmj.2013.49.1.1 Text en © Chonnam Medical Journal, 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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