Usefulness of baseline statin therapy in non-obstructive coronary artery disease by coronary computed tomographic angiography: From the CONFIRM (COronary CT Angiography EvaluatioN For Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational Multicenter) study.

Usefulness of baseline statin therapy in non-obstructive coronary artery disease by coronary computed tomographic angiography: From the CONFIRM (COronary CT Angiography EvaluatioN For Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational Multicenter) study.

<h4>Background</h4>The extent to which the presence and extent of subclinical atherosclerosis by coronary computed tomography angiography influences a potential mortality benefit of statin is unknown. We evaluated the relationship between statin therapy, mortality, and subclinical athero...

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Main Authors: Yun-Kyeong Cho, Chang-Wook Nam, Bon-Kwon Koo, Joshua Schulman-Marcus, Bríain Ó Hartaigh, Heidi Gransar, Yao Lu, Stephan Achenbach, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Daniele Andreini, Jeroen J Bax, Matthew J Budoff, Filippo Cademartiri, Tracy Q Callister, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Benjamin J W Chow, Ricardo C Cury, Augustin Delago, Gudrun Feuchtner, Martin Hadamitzky, Jörg Hausleiter, Philipp A Kaufmann, Yong-Jin Kim, Jonathon Leipsic, Erica Maffei, Hugo Marques, Gianluca Pontone, Gilbert L Raff, Ronen Rubinshtein, Leslee J Shaw, Todd C Villines, Daniel S Berman, Erica C Jones, Jessica M Peña, Fay Y Lin, James K Min
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207194

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