Usefulness of Pravastatin in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Women | Zendy

Kyoichi Mizuno | Zendy; Noriaki Nakaya | Zendy; Yasuo Ohashi | Zendy; Naoko Tajima | Zendy; Toshio Kushiro | Zendy; Tamio Teramoto | Zendy; Shinichiro Uchiyama | Zendy; Haruo Nakamura | Zendy

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Usefulness of Pravastatin in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Women

Author(s) -

Kyoichi Mizuno,

Noriaki Nakaya,

Yasuo Ohashi,

Naoko Tajima,

Toshio Kushiro,

Tamio Teramoto,

Shinichiro Uchiyama,

Haruo Nakamura

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.106.671826

Subject(s) - medicine , pravastatin , primary prevention , secondary prevention , cardiology , cholesterol , disease

It is well known that statins reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the effect of statins in women for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease has not been determined. We conducted an exploratory analysis of the effect of diet plus pravastatin therapy on the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in women with data from a large-scale primary prevention trial with pravastatin.

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