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Coronary Plaque Morphology and the Anti-Inflammatory Impact of Atorvastatin: A Multicenter (18)F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomographic/Computed Tomographic Study

BACKGROUND—: Nonobstructive coronary plaques manifesting high-risk morphology (HRM) associate with an increased risk of adverse clinical cardiovascular events. We sought to test the hypothesis that statins have a greater anti-inflammatory effect within coronary plaques containing HRM. METHODS AND RE...

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Autores principales: Singh, Parmanand, Emami, Hamed, Subramanian, Sharath, Maurovich-Horvat, Pal, Marincheva-Savcheva, Gergana, Medina, Hector M., Abdelbaky, Amr, Alon, Achilles, Shankar, Sudha S., Rudd, James H.F., Fayad, Zahi A., Hoffmann, Udo, Tawakol, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004195