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The Japan Statin Treatment Against Recurrent Stroke (J-STARS): A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel-group Study
BACKGROUND: Although statin therapy is beneficial for the prevention of initial stroke, the benefit for recurrent stroke and its subtypes remains to be determined in Asian, in whom stroke profiles are different from Caucasian. This study examined whether treatment with low-dose pravastatin prevents...
Autores principales: | Hosomi, Naohisa, Nagai, Yoji, Kohriyama, Tatsuo, Ohtsuki, Toshiho, Aoki, Shiro, Nezu, Tomohisa, Maruyama, Hirofumi, Sunami, Norio, Yokota, Chiaki, Kitagawa, Kazuo, Terayama, Yasuo, Takagi, Makoto, Ibayashi, Setsuro, Nakamura, Masakazu, Origasa, Hideki, Fukushima, Masanori, Mori, Etsuro, Minematsu, Kazuo, Uchiyama, Shinichiro, Shinohara, Yukito, Yamaguchi, Takenori, Matsumoto, Masayasu |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26501105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.08.006 |
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