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.

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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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