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Patients who discontinued statin treatment: a protocol for cohort study using primary care data

INTRODUCTION: Risk thresholds for using statins to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) have recently been lowered, so an increasing number of patients are now prescribed these drugs. Although the safety of long-term statin use has been generally established, concerns about the balance of risks and...

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Autores principales: Vinogradova, Yana, Coupland, Carol, Brindle, Peter, Hippisley-Cox, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4620169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26493458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008701