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SUBMITTER: Suchartlikitwong S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459672 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suchartlikitwong Sakolwan S Laoveeravat Passisd P Teerakanok Jirapat J Mingbunjerdsuk Thammasak T Thavaraputta Subhanudh S Vutthikraivit Wasawat W Thongprayoon Charat C Nugent Kenneth K Cheungpasitporn Wisit W
Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) 20180919 4
A literature search was performed through May 2017. Studies that compared the risk of developing <i>Clostridium difficile</i> infection (CDI) and/or the clinical outcomes of CDI in patients who received statin treatment versus those who did not receive statins were included. Ten observational studies with 37,109 patients were included. Compared to no treatment, statins reduced the risk of CDI development (odds ratio [OR] = 0.66, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.44-0.99). However, among patients w ...[more]