Adverse events associated with unblinded, but not with blinded, statin therapy in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Lipid-Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA): a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial and its non-randomised non-blind extension phase

<p>BACKGROUND: In blinded randomised controlled trials, statin therapy has been associated with few adverse events (AEs). By contrast, in observational studies, larger increases in many different AEs have been reported than in blinded trials.</p><p> METHODS: In the Lipid-Lowering A...

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Main Authors: Gupta, A, Thompson, D, Whitehouse, A, Collier, T, Dahlof, B, Poulter, N, Collins, R, Sever, P, ASCOT Investigators
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017

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