Remediating "Lessons from the controversy over statins"

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Ipswich, MA 1938, 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 BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Comment

John Abramson et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 18;389(10074):1101-1102.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30720-1.

¹ Harvard Medical School, Ipswich, MA 1938, 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 BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Comment on

The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with statin therapy in people at low risk of vascular disease: meta-analysis of individual data from 27 randomised trials.
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Should people at low risk of cardiovascular disease take a statin?
Abramson JD, Rosenberg HG, Jewell N, Wright JM. Abramson JD, et al. BMJ. 2013 Oct 22;347:f6123. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6123. BMJ. 2013. PMID: 24149819 No abstract available.
Offline: Lessons from the controversy over statins.
Horton R. Horton R. Lancet. 2016 Sep 10;388(10049):1040. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31583-5. Lancet. 2016. PMID: 27628511 No abstract available.