The Effect of Ezetimibe on Peripheral Arterial Atherosclerosis Depends Upon Statin Use at Baseline

BACKGROUND: Both statins and ezetimibe lower LDL-C, but ezetimibe’s effect on atherosclerosis is controversial. We hypothesized that lowering LDL-C cholesterol by adding ezetimibe to statin therapy would regress atherosclerosis measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the superficial femoral...

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Autori principali: West, Amy M., Anderson, Justin D., Meyer, Craig H., Epstein, Frederick H., Wang, Hongkun, Hagspiel, Klaus D., Berr, Stuart S., Harthun, Nancy L., DiMaria, Joseph M., Hunter, Jennifer R., Christopher, John M., Chew, Joshua D., Winberry, Gabriel B., Kramer, Christopher M.
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 2011
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3157540/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21570685
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.04.005
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