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Effect of pravastatin on cardiovascular events in women after myocardial infarction: the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE) trial

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Pravastatin led to significant early reduction of a wide range of cardiovascular events in post-MI women with average cholesterol levels and improved plasma lipids similarly in men and women.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 1998-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pravastatin & Myocardial infarction.

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Effect of statins on risk of coronary disease: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis indicates that reduction in LDL-C associated with statin drug treatment decreases the risk of coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality.
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National Lipid Association Recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia: Part 2.

TL;DR: This document represents a continuation of the National Lipid Association recommendations developed by a diverse panel of experts who examined the evidence base and provided recommendations regarding the following topics: lifestyle therapies and strategies to improve patient outcomes by increasing adherence and using team-based collaborative care.
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The evolving role of statins in the management of atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Clinical and experimental evidence indicates that the beneficial actions of statins occur rapidly and yield potentially clinically important anti-ischemic effects as early as one month after commencement of therapy.
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A comprehensive view of sex-specific issues related to cardiovascular disease

TL;DR: The lack of good trial evidence concerning sex-specific outcomes has led to assumptions about CVD treatment in women, which may have resulted in inadequate diagnoses and suboptimal management, greatly affecting outcomes, and may also explain why cardiovascular health in women is not improving as fast as that of men.
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Preventing myocardial infarction in the young adult in the first place: how do the national cholesterol education panel iii guidelines perform?

TL;DR: The new National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) III guidelines offer multiple new features but have a tendency to underappreciate the risk for disease in young adults.
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Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

TL;DR: In this article, the product-limit (PL) estimator was proposed to estimate the proportion of items in the population whose lifetimes would exceed t (in the absence of such losses), without making any assumption about the form of the function P(t).
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Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults

TL;DR: New guidelines for the treatment of high blood cholesterol in adults 20 years of age and over are provided and which patients should go on to have lipoprotein analysis, and which should receive cholesterol-lowering treatment on the basis of their low density lipop protein levels and status with respect to other coronary heart disease risk factors are detailed.
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Coronary Risk Factors and Plaque Morphology in Men with Coronary Disease Who Died Suddenly

TL;DR: Among men with coronary disease who die suddenly, abnormal serum cholesterol concentrations - particularly elevated ratios of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol - predispose patients to rupture of vulnerable plaques, whereas cigarette smoking predisposes patients to acute thrombosis.
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