Safety and efficacy of statins - Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: rory.collins@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
² Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK.

Comment

Rory Collins et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 18;389(10074):1099-1100.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30717-1.

¹ Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: rory.collins@ndph.ox.ac.uk.
² Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit and MRC Population Health Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK.

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