Primary prevention with lipid lowering drugs and long term risk of vascular events in older people: population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the association between use of lipid lowering drugs (statin or fibrate) in older people with no known history of vascular events and long term risk of coronary heart disease and stroke

Design

Ongoing prospective population based cohort study recruited in 1999-2000, with five face-to-face examinations.

Setting

Random sample of community dwelling population aged 65 years and over, living in three French cities (Bordeaux, Dijon, Montpellier).

Participants

7484 men and women (63%) with mean age 73.9 years and no known history of vascular events at entry. Mean follow-up was 9.1 years.

Main outcome measures

Adjusted hazard ratios of coronary heart disease and stroke in baseline lipid lowering drug users compared with non-users, calculate

SUBMITTER: Alperovitch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4437042 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature