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ArticleData in brief2016

All cholesterol-lowering interventions are expected to reduce stroke: Confirmatory data from IMPROVE-IT.

Raffaele De Caterina, Tanya Salvatore, Roberto Marchioli

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  1. Lipid-Modifying Therapies and Stroke Prevention.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022
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Raffaele De CaterinaInstitute of Cardiology and Center of Excellence on Aging, "G. d׳Annunzio" University, Chieti, Italy.
Tanya SalvatoreInstitute of Cardiology and Center of Excellence on Aging, "G. d׳Annunzio" University, Chieti, Italy.
Roberto MarchioliHematology and Oncology, Therapeutic Science and Strategy Unit, Quintiles, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

The relationship of cholesterol with stroke is much less clear than its relationship with myocardial infarction, thus confounding the interpretation of results with cholesterol-lowering trials (Di Napoli et al., 2002) [1], (De Caterina et al., 2010) [2]). IMPROVE-IT data ((Cannon et al. 2015) [3]), showing a 13.3% reduction in total cholesterol at one year in association with a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.i86 for total stroke during the trial, are very closely aligned with the relative risk of 0.90 predicted based on the totality of lipid lowering interventions ((De Caterina et al., 2016) [4]). We here provide the data from the original trials used to construct this meta-analysis, with the now added additional data from IMPROVE-IT, well-fitting the previously found meta-regression line. These data are important to predict stroke outcomes in currently ongoing trials now testing PCSK9 or cholesterol ester transfer protein inhibitors.

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CholesterolCholesterol loweringEpidemiologyEzetimibeRisk predictionStatinsStroke

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PMID27222850
PMCPMC4865673

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