The many roles of statins in ischemic stroke

J Zhao, X Zhang, L Dong, Y Wen… - Current …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
… The results from several large randomized, double-blind trials have firmly established
that statins use in ischemic stroke is associated with reduced risk of incident and recurrent …

Clinical effectiveness of statin therapy after ischemic stroke: primary results from the statin therapeutic area of the patient-centered research into outcomes stroke …

EC O'Brien, MA Greiner, Y Xian, GC Fonarow… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
… We examined the association among discharge statin use, statin intensity… ischemic stroke
patients who were not taking statins at the time of admission. We found that (1) discharge statin

Effects of statin intensity and adherence on the long-term prognosis after acute ischemic stroke

J Kim, HS Lee, CM Nam, JH Heo - Stroke, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
… However, the current study did not show a significant association between the risk of
hemorrhagic stroke and statin use or the intensity of statin. Consistent with the findings of our study, …

Effect of pre-stroke statin use on stroke severity and early functional recovery: a retrospective cohort study

JC Choi, JS Lee, TH Park, YJ Cho, JM Park, K Kang… - BMC neurology, 2015 - Springer
… To further explore a differential effect of prior statin use on initial stroke severity by ischemic
stroke subtypes, we compared the initial NIHSS scores between the two groups stratified by …

Statin use and outcomes of patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Y Guo, X Guo, K Zhao, Q Bao, J Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… safety and efficacy of intensive statin in the acute phase of ischemic stroke after IVT therapy
(… Stroke Association guidelines (15), the ethics committee did not approve the no-statin group …

Statin, cholesterol, and sICH after acute ischemic stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis

C Tan, X Liu, L Mo, X Wei, W Peng, H Wang… - Neurological …, 2019 - Springer
… /new statin use, cholesterol, and early poststroke intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in acute
ischemic stroke (AIS… This meta-analysis is aimed at evaluating the safety of prior/new statin use, …

Previous statin use is not associated with an increased prevalence or degree of gradient-echo lesions in patients with acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic …

JS Day, BA Policeni, WRK Smoker, MC Dobre… - Stroke, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
… Because statin therapy is associated with increased risk of … statin use was also associated
with microhemorrhages in patients with acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack. …

Effect of statin therapy on outcomes of patients with acute ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation

KH Choi, WK Seo, MS Park, JT Kim… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Statin therapy, particularly high‐intensity statin therapy, was … no statin therapy in patients
with acute ischemic stroke and … Association between statin use and ischemic stroke or major …

Lipid-lowering agent use at ischemic stroke onset is associated with decreased mortality

MSV Elkind, AC Flint, RR Sciacca, RL Sacco - Neurology, 2005 - AAN Enterprises
… 14.4% began statin therapy within 2 weeks of stroke onset. Poststroke statin use predicted a
… to the hypothesis that statin use at the time of ischemic stroke might reduce stroke severity, …

Statin treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke

M Al-Khaled, C Matthis… - … Journal of Stroke, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and purpose We aimed to investigate the association of statin treatment with
outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Methods Over a 4.5-year period (starting …