By Nadia Arshad, PhD TREC
A study published in British Medical Journal concludes that statins protect against first ever VTE events and that it might be a primary prevention tool for subjects without anticoagulation or antiplatelet medication.
In the study researchers have investigated the association between statin use and incidence of venous thrombosis(VTE) in a population-based cohort study in Finland during the years 2000- 2011. Continue reading