Preoperative Statin Use and Infection after Cardiac Surgery: A Cohort Study | Zendy

Rachid Mohamed | Zendy; Finlay A. McAlister | Zendy; Victor Pretorius | Zendy; Anmol Kapoor | Zendy; Sumit R. Majumdar | Zendy; David Ross | Zendy; Colleen M. Norris | Zendy

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Preoperative Statin Use and Infection after Cardiac Surgery: A Cohort Study

Author(s) -

Rachid Mohamed,

Finlay A. McAlister,

Victor Pretorius,

Anmol Kapoor,

Sumit R. Majumdar,

David Ross,

Colleen M. Norris

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/597300

Subject(s) - medicine , statin , odds ratio , cardiac surgery , confidence interval , surgery , diabetes mellitus , cohort study , prospective cohort study , retrospective cohort study , cohort , preoperative care , endocrinology

It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average risk of postoperative infection).

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