BMJ : British medical journal
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Multicenter Study
Statins and outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia: population based prospective cohort study.
To determine whether statins reduce mortality or need for admission to intensive care in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia; and to assess whether previously reported improvements in sepsis related outcomes were a result of the healthy user effect. ⋯ Statins are not associated with reduced mortality or need for admission to an intensive care unit in patients with pneumonia; reports of benefit in the setting of sepsis may be a result of confounding.