The odds ratios for a non-surgical site infection such as pneumonia (OR: 0.67; 95 % CI: 0.43–1.04), urinary tract infection (OR: 0.65; 95 % CI: 0.31–1.39) or bacteraemia (OR: 0.71; 95 % CI: 0.32–1.58) tended to be less in patients on statins but did not reach statistical significance.
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Preoperative statin therapy and infectious complications in cardiac surgery.
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