Effect of High‐Dose Statin Pretreatment on the Incidence of Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Grading the Evidence Through a Cumulative Meta‐analysis

ConclusionsHigh‐dose statin pretreatment can reduce the rate of PMI, irrespective of either the clinical presentation or previous statin‐treatment history. Importantly, the overall GRADE evidence quality was moderate.

Source: Clinical Cardiology - September 1, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: ChuanNan Zhai, HongLiang Cong, YuJie Liu, Ying Zhang, XianFeng Liu, Hao Zhang, ZhiJing Ren Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research