Cited by 56Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular HealthAcute Myocardial Infarction ResearchCancer, Lipids, and Metabolism

Do statins reduce the risk of myocardial infarction in patients with heart failure? A pooled individual-level reanalysis of CORONA and GISSI-HF

Open access
Feinstein, Matthew J., Jhund, Pardeep, Kang, Joseph, Ning, Hongyan, Maggioni, Aldo, Wikstrand, John, Kjekshus, John, Tavazzi, Luigi +2 more·2015·European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract

Aims: Current guidelines do not explicitly recommend statin use in heart failure (HF). Relatively low numbers of atherothrombotic events among HF patients, in the context of their elevated competing risks for non-atherothrombotic causes of death, may have prevented previous analyses of clinical trials from detecting a benefit for statins. We pooled data from two landmark trials of HF patients not on statin therapy randomized to rosuvastatin 10 mg daily vs. placebo, CORONA and GISSI-HF, in order to improve our power to detect statistically significant differences in atherothrombotic events. We also accounted for competing risks from other causes of death. Methods and results: We used competing risks analyses to evaluate atherothrombotic events in the context of death from other cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular causes. We also performed traditional Cox survival analyses of the same data with the intention that these statistical approaches would be complementary. CORONA participants (n = 5011, median follow-up 32.8 months) were older and sicker than GISSI-HF participants (n = 4574, median follow-up 46.9 months) by design. Rosuvastatin decreased risk for myocardial infarction (MI) among CORONA and GISSI-HF participants with ischaemic aetiology of HF (hazard ratio 0.81, 95% confidence interval 0.66–0.99, P < 0.05). There were no significant differences between rosuvastatin and placebo in risks for stroke or death from other causes. Conclusion: This individual-level reanalysis of two landmark trials demonstrates a small but statistically significant decreased risk for MI among patients with ischaemic HF randomized to rosuvastatin vs. placebo. Rosuvastatin appears to be effective in preventing MI in ischaemic HF patients not already on statins.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/ejhf.247

Cites

21 of 21 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 22 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Cleland JG, McMurray JJ, Kjekshus J, Cornel JH, Dunselman P, Fonseca C, Hjalmarson A, Korewicki J, Lindberg M, Ranjith N, van Veldhuisen DJ, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waagstein F, Wedel H, Wikstrand J; CORONA Study Group. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009;54:1850-1959.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Feinstein, M. J., Jhund, P., Kang, J., Ning, H., Maggioni, A., Wikstrand, J., Kjekshus, J., Tavazzi, L., McMurray, J., & Lloyd-Jones, D. M.
Affiliations
  • Northwestern University (US)
  • University of Glasgow (GB)
  • Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (IT)
  • University of Gothenburg (SE)
  • Oslo University Hospital (NO)
  • Maria Cecilia Hospital (IT)
  • Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , 680 North Lake Shore Drive, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL, 60611 ,
Venue
European Journal of Heart Failure
Published
2015-02-14
Volume
17
Issue
4
Pages
434-441
ISSN
  • 1388-9842 (ISSN-L)
  • 1879-0844
OpenAlex
W2172202250
Cited by
56
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
FWCI
6.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • European Journal of Heart Failure (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Pfizer
  • AstraZeneca
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
Keywords
statins, rosuvastatin, heart failure, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart failure, atherothrombotic events, competing risks, stroke, mortality, CORONA trial, GISSI-HF trial
MeSH terms
Rosuvastatin Calcium, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Clinical Trials as Topic, Female, Heart Failure, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Risk Assessment, Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review