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Efficacy and safety of statin therapy in older people: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised controlled trials

BACKGROUND: Statin therapy has been shown to reduce major vascular events and vascular mortality in a wide range of individuals, but there is uncertainty about its efficacy and safety among older people. We undertook a meta-analysis of data from all large statin trials to compare the effects of stat...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30712900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31942-1