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WOSCOPS

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Overview

Overview

Treatment with pravastatin 40 mg daily in 6595 men with hypercholesterolemia resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of fatal and non-fatal myocardial infarction and death from cardiovascular causes, without a difference in the deaths due to non-cardiovascular causes in a follow-up period of 4.9 years[1].

References

References

  1. ↑ Shepherd J, Cobbe SM, Ford I, Isles CG, Lorimer AR, MacFarlane PW; et al. (1995). “Prevention of coronary heart disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolemia. West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study Group”. N Engl J Med. 333 (20): 1301–7. doi:10.1056/NEJM199511163332001. PMID 7566020.

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