Aggressive Statins: the IDEAL Treatment

Terje Pedersen Aggressive Statins: the IDEAL Treatment
Terje Pedersen

More evidence for the benefits of aggressive lipid-lowering with statins has come from the IDEAL study, which randomised nearly 9000 post-MI patients to either 80 mg of atorvastatin or 20/40 mg simvastatin daily. Terje Pedersen from Ulleval University Hospital in Norway presented the findings.

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