Pre-admission statin use and in-hospital severity of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) disease.

Pre-admission statin use and in-hospital severity of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) disease.

<h4>Background</h4>Statins are drugs that are used to lower plasma cholesterol levels. Recently, contradictory claims have been made about possible additional effects of statins on progression of a variety of inflammatory disorders, including infections. We therefore examined the clinica...

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Main Authors: Stephen J Brett, Puja Myles, Wei Shen Lim, Joanne E Enstone, Barbara Bannister, Malcolm G Semple, Robert C Read, Bruce L Taylor, Jim McMenamin, Karl G Nicholson, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Peter J M Openshaw, Influenza Clinical Information Network (FLU-CIN)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21541017/?tool=EBI

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