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David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Statin users with pneumonia 10% more likely to die or be admitted to an intensive care unit than non statin users

This post includes a summary of a study publshed in the British Medical Journal 2006; 333 : 999

Study title and authors:
Statins and outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia: population based prospective cohort study
Sumit R Majumdar, associate professor, Finlay A McAlister, associate professor, Dean T Eurich, research associate, Raj S Padwal, assistant professor, Thomas J Marrie, professor
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Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

This study can be accessed at: http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7576/999.full?rss=1

The objectives of the study was to determine whether statins reduce mortality or need for admission to intensive care in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia; and to assess whether previously reported improvements in sepsis (blood stream infection) were a result of the healthy user effect.

Majumdar found that the Statin users were 10% more likely to die or be admitted to an intensive care unit than non-users and reports of improvements in sepsis WERE a result of the healthy user effect.

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