Is intensive treatment to lower lipid levels beneficial to older patients after acute coronary syndrome?

What The Study Did: In this secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, researchers examined the association of age with the benefit of intensive treatment to lower lipid levels with a combination therapy of simvastatin and ezetimibe compared to treatment with simvastatin alone after acute coronary syndrome in older patients.

Authors: Richard G. Bach, M.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2019.2306)

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