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Continuation With Statin Therapy and the Risk of Primary Cancer: A Population-Based Study

Cases of Cancer Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
Women (n = 4,095) 1 (0.99–1.01)
Men (n = 4,567) 0.98 (0.97–0.99)
Age 21–49 y (n = 696) 0.99 (0.97–1.02
Age 50–65 y (n = 4,164) 0.98 (0.97–0.99)
Age ≥66 (n = 3,802) 0.98 (0.97–0.99)
Low statin efficacy (n = 3,712) 0.99 (0.98–1.01)
Medium statin efficacy (n = 4,267) 0.99 (0.98–1.01)
High statin efficacy (n = 583) 0.95 (0.92–0.97)

Figure 1. Proportional effects of persistence with statin therapy on reduction of risk for overall cancer per 10% of follow-up days covered with statins. Squares indicate adjusted hazard ratios for all covariates listed in Table 2. Horizontal lines indicate 95% confidence intervals. The 3 statin efficacy levels were created on the basis of expected amounts of low-density lipoprotein reduction from baseline.

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