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Preoperative statin treatment is associated with reduced postoperative mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: An 8-year retrospective cohort study

Leslie L. Clark, John S. Ikonomidis, Fred A. Crawford, Arthur J. Crumbley, John M. Kratz, Martha R. Stroud, Robert F. Woolson, James J. Bruce, Joyce S. Nicholas, Daniel T. Lackland,

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2006 · 99 citations · 37 references

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Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

Anders Olsson, John J.V. McMurray, G Thorgeirsson et al. · The Lancet · 1994 · 8.5K citations

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The Effect of Pravastatin on Coronary Events after Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Average Cholesterol Levels

Frank M. Sacks, Marc A. Pfeffer, Lemuel A. Moyé et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1996 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease with Pravastatin in Men with Hypercholesterolemia

James Shepherd, Stuart M. Cobbe, Ian Ford et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1995 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin in 20 536 high-risk individuals: a randomised placebocontrolled trial

The Lancet · 2002 · 7K citations

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Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group

Ralph B. D’Agostino · Statistics in Medicine · 1998 · 5.4K citations

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