Statins research unfinished saga: desirability versus feasibility

Drugs in the same class are generally thought to be therapeutically equivalent because of similar mechanisms of action (the so-called "class effect"). However, statins differ in multiple characteristics, including liver and renal metabolism, half-life, effects on several serum lipid compon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fisman, Enrique Z, Adler, Yehuda, Tenenbaum, Alexander
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1156921/