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Effects of Statin Therapy on Clinical Outcomes of Survivors of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Severe Systolic Heart Failure.


ABSTRACT:

Objective

Large randomized trials have failed to show a beneficial effect of statin treatment in chronic HF. The investigators tried to evaluate the long-term effects of statin therapy in patients with new onset heart failure (HF) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Methods

Between January 2008 and December 2011, a total of 13,616 AMI patients were enrolled in the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (KAMIR) which was a prospective, multi-center, nationwide, web-based database of AMI in Korea. From this database, we studied 1,055 patients with AMI who had newly developed severe acute HF [left ventricular ejection fraction ? 40%] and were discharged alive. The patients were divided into two groups, a statin group (n = 756) and a no-statin group (n = 299). We investigated the one-year major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs), including all-cause mortality, MI, and any revascularization of each group. We then performed a propensity-score matched analysis.

Results

In the original cohort, one-year MACEs were similar between the two groups (16.5% vs. 14.7% in the statin or no-statin groups; p = 0.47). Propensity-score matching yielded 256 pairs, and in that population we observed comparable results in terms of MACEs (18.0% vs. 12.5% in the statin or no-statin groups, p = 0.11) and mortality (5.1% vs. 3.5% in the statin or no-statin groups, p = 0.51). Cox-regression analysis revealed that statin therapy was not an independent predictor for occurrence of a MACE [Hazard ratio (HR) 1.11, 95% CI 0.79-1.57, p = 0.54] or all-cause mortality (HR 1.42, 95% CI 0.75-2.70, p = 0.28).

Conclusion

Statin therapy was not associated with a reduction in the long-term occurrence of MACEs or mortality in survivors of AMI with severe acute HF in this retrospective cohort study.

SUBMITTER: Woo JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4676648 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effects of Statin Therapy on Clinical Outcomes of Survivors of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Severe Systolic Heart Failure.

Woo Jong Shin JS   Hwang Seung Joon SJ   Kim Hyun Soo HS   Kim Jin Bae JB   Kim Woo-Shik WS   Kim Kwon Sam KS   Jeong Myung Ho MH   Kim Weon W  

PloS one 20151211 12


<h4>Objective</h4>Large randomized trials have failed to show a beneficial effect of statin treatment in chronic HF. The investigators tried to evaluate the long-term effects of statin therapy in patients with new onset heart failure (HF) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI).<h4>Methods</h4>Between January 2008 and December 2011, a total of 13,616 AMI patients were enrolled in the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (KAMIR) which was a prospective, multi-center, nationwide, web-bas  ...[more]

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