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Review
. 2014;9(2):97-105.
doi: 10.2174/1574890110666150708112349.

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Role of the Statins

Evangelos Diamantis  1 , Theodoros Troupis, Antonios Mazarakis, Giorgos Kyriakos, S Diamanti, Georgios Troupis, Panagiotis Skandalakis
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Primary and Secondary Prevention of Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Role of the Statins

Evangelos Diamantis et al. Recent Adv Cardiovasc Drug Discov. 2014.

Abstract

Poor prognosis is strongly associated with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) and, even though a number of treatment strategies are available, the incidence of subsequent serious complications after an acute event is still high. Statins are hypolipidemic factors and recent studies have demonstrated that they have a protective role during the process of atherogenesis and that they reduce mortality caused by cardiovascular diseases. This review tries to reveal the function of the statins as a component of the primary and secondary action of acute coronary syndrome and to describe the lifestyle changes that have the same effect as the use of statins.

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