Journal article
The MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study: preliminary results.
- Abstract:
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The Heart Protection Study (HPS), with over 20,500 subjects, is the largest trial of statin therapy ever conducted. It provides important and definitive new information on women, the elderly, diabetics, and people with low baseline cholesterol pre-treatment and those with prior occlusive non-coronary vascular disease. It is a prospective double blind randomised controlled trial with a 2 x 2 factorial design investigating prolonged use (>5 years) of simvastatin 40 mg and a cocktail of antio...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- International journal of clinical practice
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 53-56
- Publication date:
- 2002-01-01
- EISSN:
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1742-1241
- ISSN:
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1368-5031
- Source identifiers:
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32035
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:32035
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- pubs:32035
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2002
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