• DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa064278
Corpus ID: 44794291

HDL cholesterol, very low levels of LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular events.

@article{Barter2007HDLCV,
  title={HDL cholesterol, very low levels of LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular events.},
  author={Philip John Barter and Antonio M. Gotto and John C Larosa and Jaman Maroni and Michael Szarek and Scott M Grundy and John J. P. Kastelein and Vera A. Bittner and J Fruchart},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2007},
  volume={357 13},
  pages={
          1301-10
        }
}

Philip John Barter, Antonio M. Gotto, +6 authors J Fruchart

Published 2007

Medicine

The New England journal of medicine

BACKGROUND High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels are a strong inverse predictor of cardiovascular events. [...] Key Method The predictive relationship between HDL cholesterol levels at the third month of treatment with statins and the time to the first major cardiovascular event was assessed in univariate and multivariate analyses and was also assessed for specific LDL cholesterol strata, including subjects with LDL cholesterol levels below 70 mg per deciliter (1.8 mmol per liter). Expand Abstract

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