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Statin Use During Ischemic Stroke Hospitalization Is Strongly Associated With Improved Poststroke Survival

DOI

152

Citations

22

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2011

Year

Alexander C. Flint, Hooman Kamel, Babak B. Navi, V. Rao, Bonnie Faigeles, Carol Conell, Jeff Klingman, Stephen Sidney, Nancy K. Hills, Michael Sorel,
Stroke

Abstract

Statin use early in stroke hospitalization is strongly associated with improved poststroke survival, and statin withdrawal in the hospital, even for a brief period, is associated with worsened survival.

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