Statin Treatment and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Frail Older Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Observational Study.

Older adults are often excluded from clinical trials. Decision making for administration of statins to older patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is under debate, particularly in frail older patients with comorbidity and high mortality risk. We tested the hypothesis that statin treatment in older pa...

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Main Authors: Alberto Pilotto, Francesco Panza, Massimiliano Copetti, Matteo Simonato, Daniele Sancarlo, Pietro Gallina, Timo Strandberg, MPI_AGE Project Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4482517?pdf=render