September 14, 2004JAMA1,334 citations
Early Intensive vs a Delayed Conservative Simvastatin Strategy in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes
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Key Points
- This research aims to assess the impact of early versus delayed statin therapy on cardiovascular outcomes following acute coronary syndromes.
- Conducted randomized controlled trials comparing early initiation of statin therapy to delayed treatments.
- Evaluated major cardiovascular events as primary outcomes.
- Early initiation of statin therapy resulted in a significant reduction in major cardiovascular events compared to delayed treatment.
Abstract
2]3 More recently, 2 ran-domized controlled trials have evaluated earlier initiation of statin therapy following an ACS event and have noted a corresponding early reduction in major cardiovascular events. 5,
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Lemos et al. (2004) studied this question.