Treatment with atorvastatin to the National Cholesterol Educational Program goal versus 'usual' care in secondary coronary heart disease prevention. The GREek Atorvastatin and Coronary-heart-disease Evaluation (GREACE) study.

VG, Athyros; AA, Papageorgiou; BR, Mercouris; VV, Athyrou; AN, Symeonidis; EO, Basayannis; DS, Demitriadis; AG, Kontopoulos

doi:10.1185/030079902125000787

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Treatment with atorvastatin to the National Cholesterol Educational Program goal versus 'usual' care in secondary coronary heart disease prevention. The GREek Atorvastatin and Coronary-heart-disease Evaluation (GREACE) study.

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Athyros VG

Papageorgiou AA

Mercouris BR

Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Atorvastatin is very effective in reducing plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. However, there is no long-term survival study that evaluated this statin.<h4>Patients-methods</h4>To assess the effect of atorvastatin on morbidity and mortality (total and corona...

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