Use of Statins, Survival and Incidence of Thrombosis Among Older Adults with Essential Thrombocythemia: A Population-Based Study
Podoltsev N, Zhu M, Wang R, Zeidan A, Wang X, Huntington S, Giri S, Davidoff A, Gore S, Ma X. Use of Statins, Survival and Incidence of Thrombosis Among Older Adults with Essential Thrombocythemia: A Population-Based Study. Blood 2018, 132: 4865. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2018-99-119118.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUse of statinsIncidence of thrombosisStatin usersLog-rank testRisk of thrombosisOverall survivalEssential thrombocythemiaET diagnosisPercentage of daysHydrophilic statinsOlder adultsET patientsMultivariate Cox proportional hazards modelLarge population-based cohort studyContinuous Medicare Parts APopulation-based cohort studyCox proportional hazards modelEnd Results-MedicareErythropoietin-independent erythroid colony formationBetter overall survivalKaplan-Meier curvesPopulation-based cohortEnd of studyProportional hazards modelPart D