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Q In patients with and without coronary heart disease (CHD), what are the effects of lipid lowering interventions (statins, fibrates, resins, n-3 fatty acids, and diet) for preventing non-fatal and fatal strokes?
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Data sources:
Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Pascal, and Index Medicus (all from inception to August 2002); Cochrane Library (searched August 2002); bibliographies of relevant articles; and contact with investigators.
Study selection and assessment:
randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in any language that compared dietary or pharmaceutical lipid lowering interventions with placebo or usual diet, had follow up ⩾6 months, and had …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Dr M Briel, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. brielmuhbs.ch
Source of funding: no external funding.