Journal article
Statin treatment and accrual of covert cerebral ischaemia on neuroimaging: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized trials
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Prevention of ischaemic stroke and cardiovascular events is an established benefit of statin therapy, but the effects of statin treatment on the accrual of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of ischaemic cerebral injury remain unknown. A systematic review was performed to identify all studies that randomized patients with cardiovascular risk factors to statin treatment and assessed the effect of statin treatment on …
Authors
Katsanos AH; Lioutas V; Charidimou A; Catanese L; Ng KKH; Perera K; Boasquevisque DDS; Tsivgoulis G; Smith EE; Sharma M
Journal
European Journal of Neurology, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 1023–1027
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
June 2020
DOI
10.1111/ene.14196
ISSN
1351-5101