Statins associated with lower risk of death from pneumonia

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 18:42 in Health & Medicine

Individuals who take cholesterol-lowering statins before being hospitalized with pneumonia appear less likely to die within 90 days afterward, according to a report in the October 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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