Vitamin D and statins: Action in preventing cardiovascular events

Kardiologia Polska

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1296-1298

  Pera, Łukasz ^a   Sygitowicz, Grazyna ^a   Białek, Sławomir ^a   Łukaszkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Sitkiewicz, Dariusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATORVASTATIN; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM ION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; FLUINDOSTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; ROSUVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM EXCRETION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL MEMBRANE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG METABOLISM; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PARATHYROID GLAND; PLEIOTROPY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VITAMIN D METABOLISM;

EID: 84872064658     PISSN: 00229032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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