By PPN News Staff
Statins are linked with reduced mortality in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), even when started late after diagnosis, according to a study presented at ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology, in Paris (Poster 5363).
Patients who stop the drug are at similar risk to those who never start, according to Joern Fredrik Dopheide, Dr Med, of Bern University Hospital, Switzerland. The research shows the importance