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A Study to Evaluate the effect of Rosuvastatin On Intravascular ultrasound-Derived Coronary atheroma burden (ASTEROID) trial showed that very-high-intensity statin therapy resulted in significant regression of atherosclerosis for all three prespecified measures of disease burden (1).
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(2007). Statin Controversies. In: Cardiac Drug Therapy. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-238-0_18
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