Junnichi Ishii, Kosuke Kashiwabara, Yukio Ozaki, Hiroshi Takahashi, Fumihiko Kitagawa, Hideto Nishimura, Hideki Ishii, Satoshi Iimuro, Hideki Kawai, Takashi Muramatsu, Hiroyuki Naruse, Hiroshi Iwata, Sadako Tanizawa-Motoyama, Hiroyasu Ito, Eiichi Watanabe, Yutaka Matsuyama, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Ichiro Sakuma, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Kiyoshi Hibi, Takafumi Hiro, Seiji Hokimoto, Katsumi Miyauchi, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Hideo Izawa, Hisao Ogawa, Hiroyuki Daida, Hiroaki Shimokawa, Yasushi Saito, Takeshi Kimura, Masunori Matsuzaki, Ryozo Nagai
AIM: We investigated the relationship between small dense low-density cholesterol (sdLDL-C) and risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients treated with high- or low-dose statin therapy. METHODS: This was a prospective case-cohort study within the Randomized Evaluation of Aggressive or Moderate Lipid-Lowering Therapy with Pitavastatin in Coronary Artery Disease (REAL-CAD) study, a randomized trial of high- or low-dose (4 or 1 mg/d pitavastatin, respectively) statin therapy, in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD)...
December 9, 2021: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis