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Risk of COPD Exacerbations Associated with Statins versus Fibrates: A New User, Active Comparison, and High-Dimensional Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Several observational studies have found that statins may materially decrease the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. However, most of these studies used a prevalent user, non-user comparison approach, which may lead to overestimation of the clinical benef...

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Autores principales: Sun, Shu-Hui, Chang, Chia-Hsuin, Zhan, Zhe-Wei, Chang, Wen-Hsuan, Chen, Yu-An, Dong, Yaa-Hui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8491865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34621122
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S323391