American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 316-323, February 2008

Class effects of statins in elderly patients with congestive heart failure: A population-based analysis

  • Stéphane Rinfret, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Hassan Behlouli, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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  • Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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  • Karin Humphries, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia and Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Science, Vancouver, British Columbia
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  • Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  • Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Division of Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Louise Pilote, MD, MPH, PhD, Division of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4.

Received 20 April 2007; accepted 13 September 2007. published online 26 October 2007.

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 Supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#MOP53181, MOP19671).

PII: S0002-8703(07)00762-4

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2007.09.004

American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 316-323, February 2008

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