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The effects of pravastatin on hospital admission in hypercholesterolemic middle-aged men

West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

^a Departments of Medical Cardiology, Medicine and Pathological Biochemistry and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier plots of time to first hospitalization by treatment group for (a) cardiovascular and (b) noncardiovascular trial categories. Log-rank p-values are given for the test of equality of survival curves between the treatment groups.

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Effect of pravastatin on noncardiovascular hospital admissions by ICD 8 Body System Code. The point estimate is indicated by a diamond for the difference between placebo and pravastatin groups in the mean number of admissions/1,000 subject-years. Negative values indicate reduction in hospitalization in pravastatin-treated subjects. Approximate 95% CIs with permutation p-value are indicated.

View larger version (37K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Hospital admissions by treatment group for (A) cardiovascular and (B) noncardiovascular trial categories by quartiles of baseline 5-year untreated risk of definite CHD death or nonfatal MI. See text for details.