Statin Treatment and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Frail Older Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Observational Study

BACKGROUND: Older adults are often excluded from clinical trials. Decision making for administration of statins to older patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is under debate, particularly in frail older patients with comorbidity and high mortality risk. We tested the hypothesis that statin treatment...

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Autores principales: Pilotto, Alberto, Panza, Francesco, Copetti, Massimiliano, Simonato, Matteo, Sancarlo, Daniele, Gallina, Pietro, Strandberg, Timo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26110884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130946

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26110884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130946

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