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Lipid-Lowering Therapy Promotes Post-Op Survival
The Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a recent study indicating that when statins are given to non-cardiac patients after major surgery, mortality rates drop substantially. In the article, “Lipid-Lowering Therapy and In-Hospital Mortality Following Major Non-Cardiac Surgery,” Vol. 291 No. 17, May 5, 2004, researchers described their observations of the surgical outcomes for more than 780,000 patients who were operated on in 2000 and 2001. They found that administering statins, which stabilize atherosclerotic plaques, within 2 days of surgery decreased death rates in the group that received them by 38% over those in the group of patients who did not receive them.
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Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel
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