Cholesterol Lowering With Simvastatin Improves Prognosis of Diabetic Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A subgroup analysis of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

Pyörälà, Kalevi; R. Pedersen, Terje; Kjekshus, John; Færgeman, Ole; Olsson, Anders; Þorgeirsson, Guðmundur; Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) Group, The

doi:10.2337/diacare.20.4.614

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Cholesterol Lowering With Simvastatin Improves Prognosis of Diabetic Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A subgroup analysis of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

Published in Diabetes Care • Apr 1, 1997

Authors:

Kalevi Pyörälà

Terje R. Pedersen

John Kjekshus

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess in diabetic patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) the effect of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin on mortality and the risk of CHD and other atherosclerotic events. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A post hoc subgroup analysis was carried out on data from 202 diabetic patie...

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Medicine

Simvastatin

Internal medicine

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