Kidney complications: Why don't statins always work?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-40

  Karumanchi, S Ananth ^a   Thadhani, Ravi ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ROSUVASTATIN;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE; UREMIA;

ANIMALS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MICE; UREMIA;

EID: 73849132887     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0110-38     Document Type: Short Survey

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