Effect of statin treatment on short term mortality after pneumonia episode: cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether statins protect against all cause mortality after a diagnosis of pneumonia.

Design

Cohort study using propensity score based method to control for differences between people prescribed and not prescribed statins.

Setting

United Kingdom Health Improvement Network database, which contains electronic primary care medical records of more than six million patients.

Participants

Every patient starting a statin between 1995 and 2006 (129,288) matched with up to five non-statin users (n = 600,241); 9073 patients had a recorded diagnosis of pneumonia, of whom 1398 were using a statin.

Main outcome measure

All cause mortality within six months of diagnosis of pneumonia.

Results

Among users and non-users of statins with compara

SUBMITTER: Douglas I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3071610 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature