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Longer duration of statin therapy is associated with decreased carotid plaque vascularity by magnetic resonance imaging.

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Published in Atherosclerosis on December 01, 2015

Authors

Kevin D O'Brien1, Daniel S Hippe2, Huijun Chen3, Moni B Neradilek4, Jeffrey L Probstfield5, Suzanne Peck6, Daniel A Isquith5, Gador Canton7, Chun Yuan2, Nayak L Polissar4, Xue-Qiao Zhao5, William S Kerwin8

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: cardiac@uw.edu.
2: Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
3: Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
4: The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistics, Seattle, WA, USA.
5: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
6: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
7: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
8: Presage Biosciences, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Niacin Plus Statin to Prevent Vascular Events | NCT00120289

Carotid Plaque Characteristics by MRI in AIM-HIGH (Carotid MRI Substudy) | NCT01178320

Plaque Inflammation and Dysfunctional HDL Cholesterol in Participants Receiving Niacin and Statins in the AIM-HIGH Study (The HDL Proteomics Study) (HDL Proteomics) | NCT00880178

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