Why the study?
Does cerivastatin improve endothelial function in elderly diabetic patients within 3 days?
Population
27 elderly diabetic patients (aged 69.3+/-3.4 years), with or without mild hypercholesterolemia
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
3 days
Authors
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May support rapid endothelial improvement with cerivastatin in elderly diabetics; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Does cerivastatin improve endothelial function in elderly diabetic patients within 3 days?
Cerivastatin rapidly improves endothelial function in elderly diabetic patients within 3 days, independent of lipid-lowering effects.
Tsunekawa et al. (2001) studied this question.
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