Aggressive Statins: the IDEAL Treatment

Aggressive Statins: the IDEAL Treatment

17/11/2005

Terje Pedersen More evidence for the benefits of aggressive lipid-lowering with statins has come from the IDEAL study, which randomised nearly 9000 post-MI patients to either 80 mg of atorvastatin or

Terje Pedersen


Terje Pedersen

More evidence for the benefits of aggressive lipid-lowering with statins has come from the IDEAL study, which randomised nearly 9000 post-MI patients to either 80 mg of atorvastatin or 20/40 mg simvastatin daily. Terje Pedersen from Ulleval University Hospital in Norway presented the findings.
[audio:https://www.audiomedica.com/podcasting/aha2005/Terje_Pedersen.mp3]

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