New theory and new practice of Statins in the management of ischemic stroke / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Nowadays,statin has been one of the key medications for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.Over the past years,lost of studies related to statins in preventing and treat ischemic cerebrovascular disease have been carried out.For clinical practice,this paper reviewed the clinical evidences of statins on primary prevention and secondary prevention for ischemic stroke as well as the safety of statins.