Clarifying whether statins are beneficial in atrial fibrillation patients with ischemic stroke would assist with a common management dilemma
For patients with coronary heart disease, atorvastatin has received approval as a therapy to reduce the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction, fatal and nonfatal stroke, revascularization procedures
Several post hoc analyses of different subgroups followed the SPARCL study
Patients with ischaemic stroke who are already taking a statin can continue statin treatment
The AURORA study 9 was an international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind prospective trial involving 2776 ESRD patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis
Researchers combed through hundreds of papers that had studied statins since 1994 to determine the Statins have proved beneficial for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults, 1, 2, 3 but patients >75 years have been underrepresented in randomized controlled trials
Methods A systematic literature review and meta-analysis was performed in
Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source (ESUS) accounts for up to one fifth of cases of ischemic stroke
Consequently, physicians should consider statin therapy in all patients at high risk of stroke
It is used in some people to lower the chance of heart attack, stroke, and certain heart procedures
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