The controversies of statin therapy: weighing the evidence.

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  2012

• Venue

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology

• Publication date

  2012-09-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.07.007PMID 22902202
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