European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 5, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(19):2443; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn351
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Impact of preoperative statin therapy on adverse postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of over 30 000 patients
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We congratulate Liakopoulos et al.1 upon the publication of their meta-analysis and would be grateful that their result of early all-cause mortality strengthens that of our preceding meta-analysis.2 Their meta-analysis of crude odds ratio