Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To summarise the effect of primary prevention with lipid lowering drugs on coronary heart disease events, coronary heart disease mortality, and all cause mortality. DESIGN:Meta-analysis. IDENTIFICATION:Systematic search of the Medline database from January 1994 to June 1999 for English language studies examining drug treatment for lipid disorders (use of the MeSH terms "hyperlipidemia" and "anticholesteremic agents," keyword searches for individual drug names, and a search strategy for identifying randomised trials to capture relevant articles); identification of older studies through systematic reviews and hand search of bibliographies. INCLUSION CRITERIA:All randomised trials of at least one year's duration that examined drug treatment for patients with no known coronary heart

SUBMITTER: Pignone M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27504 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature