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Pretreatment with statins improves early outcome in patients with first-ever ischaemic stroke: a pleiotropic effect of statins or a beneficial effect of hypercholesterolemia?

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dc.creator Arboix, A. (Adrià)
dc.creator García-Eroles, Luis
dc.creator Oliveres, Montserrat
dc.creator Targa, Cecília
dc.creator Balcells, Miquel
dc.creator Massons, Joan
dc.date 2010-09-13T09:34:16Z
dc.date 2010-09-13T09:34:16Z
dc.date 2010
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:25:16Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:25:16Z
dc.identifier 1471-2377
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/13664
dc.identifier 20565890
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19128
dc.description Background: Data from different studies suggest a favourable association between pretreatment with statins or hypercholesterolemia and outcome after ischaemic stroke. We examined whether there were differences in in-hospital mortality according to the presence or absence of statin therapy in a large population of first-ever ischaemic stroke patients and assessed the influence of statins upon early death and spontaneous neurological recovery. Methods: In 2,082 consecutive patients with first-ever ischaemic stroke collected from a prospective hospital-based stroke registry during a period of 19 years (1986-2004), statin use or hypercholesterolemia before stroke was documented in 381 patients. On the other hand, favourable outcome defined as grades 0-2 in the modified Rankin scale was recorded in 382 patients. Results: Early outcome was better in the presence of statin therapy or hypercholesterolemia (cholesterol levels were not measured) with significant differences between the groups with and without pretreatment with statins in in-hospital mortality (6% vs 13.3%, P = 0.001) and symptom-free (22% vs 17.5%, P = 0.025) and severe functional limitation (6.6% vs 11.5%, P = 0.002) at hospital discharge, as well as lower rates of infectious respiratory complications during hospitalization. In the logistic regression model, statin therapy was the only variable inversely associated with in-hospital death (odds ratio 0.57) and directly associated with favourable outcome (odds ratio 1.32).
dc.format 8 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-10-47
dc.relation BMC Neurology 2010, 10:47, p. 1-8
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-10-47
dc.rights cc-by, (c) Arboix et al., 2010
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina)
dc.subject Hipercolesterolèmia
dc.subject Malalties cerebrovasculars
dc.subject Hypercholesteremia
dc.subject Cerebrovascular disease
dc.title Pretreatment with statins improves early outcome in patients with first-ever ischaemic stroke: a pleiotropic effect of statins or a beneficial effect of hypercholesterolemia?
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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