The role of statins for the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in women

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1054-1062

  Tziomalos, Konstantinos ^a   Kakafika, Anna I ^b   Athyros, Vasilios G ^b   Karagiannis, Asterios ^b   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MEVINOLIN; PLACEBO; PRAVASTATIN; ROSUVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BREAST CANCER; CAROTID ARTERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RISK; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

CORONARY DISEASE; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; WOMEN;

EID: 65649113959     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161209787846946     Document Type: Review

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