Statins for heart failure: at the crossroads between cholesterol reduction and pleiotropism?
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- Vol. 91 (1) , 1-2
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2004.042515
Abstract
Statins are being hailed as the new aspirin—but are they beneficial for patients with heart failure?Keywords
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