Concepedia

Statin therapy is associated with reduced mortality across all age groups of individuals with significant coronary disease, including very elderly patients

Chloe A. Allen Maycock, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Benjamin D. Horne, John F. Carlquist, Tami L. Bair, Robert R. Pearson, Qunyu Li, Jeffrey L. Anderson

Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2002 · 137 citations · 22 references

DOI

Concepts

References

22

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

, , +13

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

, , +16

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

, , +12

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

, , +13

Prevention of Cardiovascular Events and Death with Pravastatin in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and a Broad Range of Initial Cholesterol Levels

New England Journal of Medicine · 1998 · 5.3K citations · Full text

, , +15