Fluvastatin prevents cardiac death and myocardial infarction in renal transplant recipients: Post-hoc subgroup analyses of the ALERT study

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 988-995

  Jardine, Alan G ^a   Holdaas, Hallvard ^b   Fellström, Bengt ^c   Cole, Edward ^d   Nyberg, Gudrun ^e   Grönhagen Riska, Carola ^f   Madsen, Søren ^g   Neumayer, Hans Hellmut ^h   Maes, Bart ⁱ   Ambühl, Patrice ^j   Olsson, Anders G ^k   Holme, Ingar ^l   Fauchald, Per ^a   Gimpelwicz, Claudio ^m   Pedersen, Terje R ^l  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^h CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^k LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^l ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^m NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

ALERT; Cardiac outcomes; Fluvastatin; Hypercholesterolemia; Renal transplant recipients; Statins

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; FLUINDOSTATIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DEATH; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDOLES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLACEBOS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942592399     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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