Efficacy of cholesterol-lowering therapy in 18,686 people with diabetes in 14 randomised trials of statins: a meta-analysis.

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Published in Lancet on January 12, 2008

Authors

Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaborators, P M Kearney, L Blackwell, R Collins, A Keech, J Simes, R Peto, J Armitage, C Baigent

Associated clinical trials:

Trial to Evaluate the Effect of ALN-PCSSC Treatment on Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C) (ORION) | NCT02597127

Early Vascular Healing in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients With Different Doses of Rosuvastatin (CROWN-1) | NCT03007524

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