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N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects

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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 383, Issue 22, Pages 2182-2184

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MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2031173

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  1. British Heart Foundation [PG/15/7/31235]
  2. Wellcome Trust [212183/Z/18/Z]
  3. Medical Research Council [MR/S021108/1]
  4. National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
  5. Imperial Clinical Trials Unit

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Patients who had discontinued statins because of side effects received four bottles of a statin, four bottles of placebo, and four empty bottles, each to be used for 1 month in a random sequence for 12 months. The symptom burden with placebo was 90% of the symptom burden with the statin.

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