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Rosuvastatin doesn't work for older people with ischaemic heart failure

BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.335.7628.1016-a (Published 15 November 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;335:1016

Statins prevent cardiovascular events, including deaths in patients with coronary artery disease. Intuitively, they should do the same for people with heart failure caused by the same disease. But rosuvastatin recently surprised researchers by failing to work …

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