Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Reductions in all-cause mortality, major vascular events and revascularisations were found with no excess of adverse events among people without evidence of CVD treated with statins.
PMID: 23440795 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - March 2, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Taylor F, Huffman MD, Macedo AF, Moore TH, Burke M, Davey Smith G, Ward K, Ebrahim S Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research