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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:792
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Minoru Tabata, MD, MPH

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan

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We appreciate the comment and update from Takagi and colleagues. They previously reported the results of a meta-analysis of controlled studies, showing that preoperative statin use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality after cardiac surgery.1Go At this time, they added recently published studies, including ours,2Go in the meta-analysis . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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