Investigators will study whether immediate statin treatment after the onset of stroke is beneficial on the neurological protection
It is much more important in Japan than Western to improve the prognosis after stroke because the prevalence and mortality rate of stroke in Japan is about 3-4 times as those of acute myocardial infarction. Investigators will study whether immediate statin treatment after the onset of stroke is beneficial on the neurological protection since most of previous studies with statins just showed the preventive effects from onset of primary or recurrent cerebral infarction.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
270
Randomized controlled trial of early versus late statin therapy in patients with ischemic stroke
Hyogo collage of Medicine
Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
modified Rankin Scale
Scale range from 0 \[no symptom\] to 6 \[dead\]
Time frame: 12 weeks from stroke onset
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