Association of Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases With Hospitalization for COVID‐19: A Nationwide Matched Population‐Based Cohort Study

Association of Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases With Hospitalization for COVID‐19: A Nationwide Matched Population‐Based Cohort Study

Background There is little evidence on the relationship between statin use and the risk of hospitalization attributable to COVID‐19. Methods and Results The French National Healthcare Data System database was used to conduct a matched‐cohort study. For each adult aged ≥40 years receiving statins for...

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Main Authors: Kim Bouillon, Bérangère Baricault, Laura Semenzato, Jérémie Botton, Marion Bertrand, Jérôme Drouin, Rosemary Dray‐Spira, Alain Weill, Mahmoud Zureik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-06-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
COVID‐19
hospitalization
mortality
SARS‐CoV‐2
statins
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.121.023357

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