Clinical Predictors for Lack of Favorable Vascular Response to Statin Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Serial Optical Coherence Tomography Study

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have demonstrated that statin therapy improves cardiac outcomes, probably by stabilizing thin‐cap fibroatheroma in patients with coronary artery disease. However, major adverse cardiac events still occur in some patients, despite statin therapy. The aim of this study is...

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Published in:J Am Heart Assoc
Main Authors: Minami, Yoshiyasu, Wang, Zhao, Aguirre, Aaron D., Ong, Daniel S., Kim, Chong‐Jin, Uemura, Shiro, Soeda, Tsunenari, Lee, Hang, Fujimoto, James, Jang, Ik‐Kyung
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721742/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29092845
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.006241
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