The Japan Statin Treatment Against Recurrent Stroke (J-STARS): A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel-group Study

The Japan Statin Treatment Against Recurrent Stroke (J-STARS): A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel-group Study

Background: Although statin therapy is beneficial for the prevention of initial stroke, the benefit for recurrent stroke and its subtypes remains to be determined in Asian, in whom stroke profiles are different from Caucasian. This study examined whether treatment with low-dose pravastatin prevents...

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Main Authors: Naohisa Hosomi, Yoji Nagai, Tatsuo Kohriyama, Toshiho Ohtsuki, Shiro Aoki, Tomohisa Nezu, Hirofumi Maruyama, Norio Sunami, Chiaki Yokota, Kazuo Kitagawa, Yasuo Terayama, Makoto Takagi, Setsuro Ibayashi, Masakazu Nakamura, Hideki Origasa, Masanori Fukushima, Etsuro Mori, Kazuo Minematsu, Shinichiro Uchiyama, Yukito Shinohara, Takenori Yamaguchi, Masayasu Matsumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Statin
Ischemic stroke
Hemorrhagic stroke
Atherothrombotic infarction
Cholesterol
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396415301006

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