TY  - JOUR
T1  - Statins and all-cause mortality in high-risk primary prevention: A second look at the results
AU  - Chodick G, Shalev V
Y1  - 2010/12/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.456
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 2041
EP  - 2042
VL  - 170
IS  - 22
N2  - 
In summarizing the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT) study,2 the authors calculated a risk ratio of 0.98, while the original publication reported a risk ratio of 0.87. This change alone may have biased against finding a statistically significant benefit for statin use.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.456
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.456
ER  -