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Cardiology A clinical trial–Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study which enrolled 4444 persons, and evaluated M&M with a cholesterol-lowering agent–simvastatin, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor on mortality, risk of CHD, CA and other outcome data in hypercholesterolemic Pts with CAD. See Myocardial infarction, Warfarin.

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Cardiology A clinical trial–Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study–of the effect of simvastatin therapy on the M&M in Pts with hypercholesterolemia and CAD. See Lipid-lowering therapy, Simvastatin. Cf MAAS, PLAC I, PLAC II, WOSCOPS A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, multicenter study.

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