Safety and efficacy of statins

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: john_abramson@hms.harvard.edu.
² Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Comment

John Abramson et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 18;389(10074):1097.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30713-4.

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: john_abramson@hms.harvard.edu.
² Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy.
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