Statins used for secondary prevention in patients with stroke reduce the risk of further ischaemic strokes and cardiovascular events

Hill, James E.; Hare, Marianne

doi:10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103136

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“…After a stroke or a transient ischaemic attack [TIA] people have a substantial long-term risk of recurrent stroke (van Wijk et al 2005;Dhamoon et al 2006;Feng et al 2010;Edwards et al 2017). Secondary prevention medication is an important (Kikuchi et al 2012;Hankey 2014) and effective strategy to reduce the risk of stroke recurrence (Toyoda 2009;Hill and Hare 2019). However, medication adherence and medication persistence rates are low after stroke (Zhang et al 2019).…”

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