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Comparative effectiveness and safety of statins as a class and of specific statins for primary preve...

Comparative effectiveness and safety of statins as a class and of specific statins for primary preve...

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Comparative effectiveness and safety of statins as a class and of specific statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and network meta-analysis of randomized trials with 94,283 participants

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Comparative effectiveness and safety of statins as a class and of specific statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and network meta-analysis of randomized trials with 94,283 participants

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United States: Elsevier Inc

Journal title

The American heart journal, 2019-04, Vol.210, p.18-28

Language

English

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United States: Elsevier Inc

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Contents

The current guidelines of statins for primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention were based on results from systematic reviews and meta-analyses that suffer from limitations.
We searched in PubMed for existing systematic reviews and individual open-label or double-blinded randomized controlled trials that compared a statin with a placebo or...

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Comparative effectiveness and safety of statins as a class and of specific statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and network meta-analysis of randomized trials with 94,283 participants

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2179523278

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2179523278

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0002-8703

E-ISSN

1097-6744

DOI

10.1016/j.ahj.2018.12.007

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