Impact of statins therapy on morphological changes in lipid-rich plaques stratified by 10-Year framingham risk score: A serial optical coherence tomography study
Zhu Y, Lin L, Wang C, Jia H, Hu S, Li L, Zhang X, Zheng G, Wang Y, Sun R, Afolabi A, Mustafina I, Hou J, Zhang S, Yu B. Impact of statins therapy on morphological changes in lipid-rich plaques stratified by 10-Year framingham risk score: A serial optical coherence tomography study. Oncotarget 2017, 5: 27401-27411. PMID: 28404965, PMCID: PMC5432344, DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16172.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsImpact of statin therapyLipid-rich plaquesStatin therapyFibrous cap thicknessGroup BFramingham risk scoreGroup AOptical coherence tomography studiesRisk scoreBaseline to 6 monthsLower risk group ARisk group ABaseline characteristicsRisk group BMorphological changesTherapyOCT imagesPatientsLipid indicesTomography studiesStatinsPlaqueCHDFraminghamBaseline