Background Lowering the blood cholesterol level may reduce the risk of coronary heart
disease. This double-blind study was designed to determine whether the administration of …

Background Although statins reduce coronary and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality
in middle-aged individuals, their efficacy and safety in elderly people is not fully established. …

Background Trials of statin therapy have had conflicting findings on the risk of development
of diabetes mellitus in patients given statins. We aimed to establish by a meta-analysis of …

Background— The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) recently proposed a
simple definition for metabolic syndrome. Information on the prospective association of this …

This statement examines the relation of the resting ECG to its technology. Its purpose is to
foster understanding of how the modern ECG is derived and displayed and to establish …

Background—We examined the development of new diabetes mellitus in men aged 45 to
64 years during the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study. Methods and Results—Our …

Objective To determine whether aspirin and antioxidant therapy, combined or alone, are
more effective than placebo in reducing the development of cardiovascular events in patients …

Background Statin therapy has been shown to reduce major vascular events and vascular
mortality in a wide range of individuals, but there is uncertainty about its efficacy and safety …

Background Clinical use of criteria for metabolic syndrome to simultaneously predict risk of
cardiovascular disease and diabetes remains uncertain. We investigated to what extent …

The goals of electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring in hospital settings have expanded from
simple heart rate and basic rhythm determination to the diagnosis of complex arrhythmias, …