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Statin prescription in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and risk of exacerbations: a retrospective cohort study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
- Abstract:
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Objective Observational studies have suggested a beneficial effect of taking statins on frequency of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. However, clinical trials of statins in people with COPD did not confirm those results. This study aimed to investigate this association using a methodological approach, which reduces the biases associated with some previous observational study designs.
Design Retrospective cohort study compar... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 12
- Article number:
- e050757
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-11-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2044-6055
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1207663
- Local pid:
- pubs:1207663
- Deposit date:
- 2021-11-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Smith et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- ©2021 Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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