High doses of statins and stroke outcome

Comment

Patricia Martínez-Sánchez et al. Stroke. 2010 Mar.

. 2010 Mar;41(3):e162; author reply 163.

doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.572982. Epub 2010 Feb 4.

No abstract available

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