High-dose statins should be used in all acute ischemic strokes

M Moonis - Stroke, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
… direct correlation of prestroke and post stroke statin use and stoke outcome. Hyperlipidemia
… acute ischemic stroke outcomes, stressing the importance of the pleiotropic effects of statins. …

Safety of statin pretreatment in intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke

G Tsivgoulis, P Kadlecová, A Kobayashi… - Stroke, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
… Moreover, we did not evaluate early poststroke statin use (during the first 24 hours of AIS) …
on early poststroke statin use. Finally, the association between statin pretreatment and ECR …

Recurrent ischemic stroke: strategies for prevention

R Oza, K Rundell, M Garcellano - American family physician, 2017 - aafp.org
… for ischemic stroke, and its treatment can drastically reduce the risk of recurrent ischemic
stroke… and drug-drug interactions, there is uncertainty regarding statin use after 75 years of age. …

Statin use is independently associated with smaller infarct volume in nonlacunar MCA territory stroke

SJ Shook, R Gupta, NA Vora, AL Tievsky… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… The aim of our study was to determine whether patients on statins at the time of ischemic
stroke were more likely to have smaller infarct volumes independent of other relevant clinical …

Patterns of statin use in a real-world population of patients at high cardiovascular risk

I Lin, J Sung, RJ Sanchez, UG Mallya… - Journal of Managed …, 2016 - jmcp.org
… History of ischemic stroke: ischemic stroke that occurred between … statin regimens in patients
with established CVD (ie, CHD, PAD, or ischemic stroke) who were receiving ongoing statin

Statin use and functional outcome after tissue plasminogen activator treatment in acute ischaemic stroke

I Miedema, M Uyttenboogaart, K Koopman… - Cerebrovascular …, 2010 - karger.com
statin use on functional outcome in acute ischaemic stroke patients treated with tPA. We also
studied this possible effect in strokeischemic stroke prevention and their influence on acute …

Statins and the risks of stroke recurrence and death after ischemic stroke: the Fukuoka Stroke Registry

…, T Kitazono, Fukuoka Stroke Registry Investigators - Atherosclerosis, 2013 - Elsevier
statin at discharge is associated with a reduced risk of stroke recurrence and death after
first-ever ischemic stroke by … We did not have information regarding compliance with statin use

Early statin use is associated with increased risk of infection after stroke

K Becker, P Tanzi, A Kalil, D Shibata, K Cain - Journal of Stroke and …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Given the potent immunomodulatory properties of statins, we hypothesized that early statin
use … with ischemic stroke, we assessed the impact of early statin use on the risk of post stroke

Dyslipidemia as a risk factor for ischemic stroke

K Tziomalos, VG Athyros, A Karagiannis… - Current topics in …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
… Effect of prior statin use on functional outcome and delayed … ; Kassell, NF; Bleck, TP Statin
use was not associated with less … , BS; Koroshetz, WJ SSRI and statin use increases the risk for …

Clinical factors associated with statins prescription in acute ischemic stroke patients: findings from the Lombardia Stroke Registry

I Canavero, A Cavallini, P Perrone, M Magoni, L Sacchi… - BMC neurology, 2014 - Springer
… The presence of non-cardioembolic risk factors was among the main drivers of increased
statin use in the GWTG-Stroke trial [21]: our results were in line with it. It is interesting to note …