Tag: Statins

Authors say findings show gaps between practice and guideline-based care

Incident hypertension, statin use higher with tenofovir alafenamide fumarate compared with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate

Combination approach better than statin monotherapy for all-cause mortality at one, three, and five years in acute coronary syndromes

Benefit for incident CRC was duration-dependent, with significantly reduced risk after two or more years of use

Survivors of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage with statin exposure have a lower risk for any stroke, ischemic stroke

Initiators of statins aged 75 years or older had higher mean percentage reduction than those younger than 50 years

Significant reduction seen in incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events over median follow-up of 5.1 years

For some race-ethnicity-gender groups, disparities not explained by differences in medical appropriateness of tx, structural factors

Benefits across stroke types seen in duration-dependent manner

Risk of major heart problems cut by 35 percent, researchers found