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P M Ridker
Dr P M Ridker, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; pridker@partners.org
STUDY DESIGN
Design:
randomised placebo-controlled trial (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin [JUPITER]). ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00239681.
Allocation concealment:
concealed.*
Blinding:
blinded (patients, clinicians, data collectors, and outcome adjudication committee).*
STUDY QUESTION
Setting:
1315 sites in 26 countries.
Patients:
17 802 men ⩾50 years of age or women ⩾60 years of age (mean age 66 y, 62% men) who had no history of cardiovascular (CV) disease, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein concentrations ⩾2.0 mg/l, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels <3.4 mmol/l (130 mg/dl), and triglyceride concentrations <5.6 mmol/l (500 mg/dl). …
Footnotes
Source of funding: AstraZeneca.
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