Statin Use and Survival Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Heart Failure
Open Access
- 10 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (1) , 62-67
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.1.62
Abstract
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction in the Western world.1 It is estimated that 50% of incident cases of heart failure in persons younger than 75 years are due to coronary artery disease.2 Myocardial ischemia also plays an important role in cardiac remodeling, thereby worsening the prognosis in affected persons with heart failure.3This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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