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Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S)

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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1994-11-18 and is currently open access. It has received 8920 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Simvastatin & Statin.

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Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories

TL;DR: A simple coronary disease prediction algorithm was developed using categorical variables, which allows physicians to predict multivariate CHD risk in patients without overt CHD.
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Implications of Recent Clinical Trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guidelines

TL;DR: The trials confirm the benefit of cholesterol-lowering therapy in high-risk patients and support the ATP III treatment goal of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) <100 mg/dL, and confirm that older persons benefit from therapeutic lowering of LDL-C.
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Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and in Nondiabetic Subjects with and without Prior Myocardial Infarction

TL;DR: It is suggested that diabetic patients without previous myocardial infarction have as high a risk of myocardia infarctions as nondiabetic patients with previous my Cardiac Arrest.
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, +736 more
- 05 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors provides a timely opportunity to update the comparative risk assessment with new data for exposure, relative risks, and evidence on the appropriate counterfactual risk distribution.
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The pathogenesis of coronary artery disease and the acute coronary syndromes (1).

TL;DR: The two hypotheses to explain the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, the "incrustation" hypothesis and the "lipid" hypothesis, are now known.
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Fifteen year mortality in Coronary Drug Project patients: Long-term benefit with niacin

TL;DR: The Coronary Drug Project was conducted to assess the long-term efficacy and safety of five lipid-influencing drugs in 8,341 men aged 30 to 64 years with electrocardiogram-documented previous myocardial infarction, and niacin treatment showed modest benefit in decreasing definite nonfatal recurrent myocardia but did not decrease total mortality.
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Clofibrate and Niacin in Coronary Heart Disease

Jeremiah Stamler
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By how much and how quickly does reduction in serum cholesterol concentration lower risk of ischaemic heart disease

M. R. Law, +2 more
- 05 Feb 1994 - 
TL;DR: The results from the cohort studies, international comparisons, and clinical trials are remarkably consistent and estimate that a long term reduction in serum cholesterol concentration of 0.6 mmol/l (10%), which can be achieved by moderate dietary change,owers the risk of ischaemic heart disease by 50%" at age 40, falling to 20% at age 70.
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