Healthy men should not take statins

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1491-1492

  Redberg, Rita F ^a   Katz, Mitchell H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; ROSUVASTATIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CATARACT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYALGIA; MYOPATHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84859531777     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.423     Document Type: Short Survey

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