Exaggerated report of benefits in a flawed long term statin treatment study

David Diamond¹, Malcolm Kendrick², Luca Mascitelli³

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¹ Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33647, USA.
² East Cheshire Trust, Macclesfield District General Hospital, Macclesfield, UK.
³ Medical Service, Comando Brigata Alpina "Julia"/Multinational Land Force, Udine, Italy.

PMID: 29089296
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j4915

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Exaggerated report of benefits in a flawed long term statin treatment study

David Diamond et al. BMJ. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 31:359:j4915.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4915.

Authors

David Diamond¹, Malcolm Kendrick², Luca Mascitelli³

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33647, USA.
² East Cheshire Trust, Macclesfield District General Hospital, Macclesfield, UK.
³ Medical Service, Comando Brigata Alpina "Julia"/Multinational Land Force, Udine, Italy.

PMID: 29089296
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j4915

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