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Notes: Eligibility for the study was guided chiefly by the &quot;uncertainty principle&quot;. Patients were informed at the start of the study that lowering cholesterol was already known to reduce the risk of heart attacks, but that most people among the range of volunteers recruited were not then receiving any kind of cholesterol-lowering treatment. Prior to randomisation, the patient's own doctor was provided with the patient's lipid profile and a summary of existing evidence about cholesterol-lowering therapy, and asked to indicate if -- in their view -- a statin was likely to be needed by the patient (in which case the patient would not be randomised). Subsequently, randomised participants and their doctors were encouraged to start a non-study statin if it was considered to have become indicated (e.g. because of emerging evidence from other trials or changes in the patient's medical condition).
Notes: Patients included with a history of coronary heart disease were predominantly older individuals, women and those with average or below average cholesterol levels at entry to the study. Those with cerebrovascular disease had a history of a stroke, transient ischaemic attack or carotid artery surgery. Those with peripheral vascular disease had intermittent claudication or a history of aortic or peripheral revascularisation. Patients with diabetes had either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Notes: Numbers are based on non-fasting lipid measurements taken at the initial visit prior to any lipid lowering therapy being taken. LDL cholesterol values were directly measured not calculated.
Notes: Participants were asked about unexplained muscle pain or weakness at each follow-up. On average about 5% of participants reported such symptoms at each visit, but at no time during the study was there any significant difference between those allocated simvastatin or placebo. If participants stopped study medication the reasons for doing so were recorded.
Notes: Numbers are of participants ever having values in the ranges shown. Participants were seen regularly at 4 month intervals during the first year and then six monthly during the study. A blood sample was taken at each visit and the liver enzyme alanine transaminase (ALT) routinely measured. In addition, if unexplained muscle pain or weakness was reported (or participants were taking non-study statin treatment as well as study simvastatin or placebo tablets) then creatine kinase (CK) was measured . In addition some CK values were reported by the managing doctor.
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Notes: Similar proportional reductions in major coronary events, in strokes and in revascularisations yield a very definite effect on the first occurrence of any of these “major vascular events“. The extreme statistical significance of this reduction and the very large number of events and on which it is based, allows reliable assessment of the effects of treatment in various different circumstances.
Notes: After the first year, there were highly significant reductions of about one quarter in the event rates during each separate year. This leads to continued divergence of the lines in this life-table plot of the effect of simvastatin on the incidence of a first major vascular event, which implies that benefits would increase with longer duration treatment and follow-up.
Notes: Similar proportional reductions in risk of major vascular events are seen when participants are subdivided by baseline LDL or total cholesterol levels.