Do Statins Reduce the Health and Health Care Costs of Obesity?

Etienne Gaudette, Dana Goldman, Andrew Messali and Neeraj Sood

PharmacoEconomics, 2015, vol. 33, issue 7, 723-734

Abstract: Although statins are very effective medications for lowering the risk of obesity-associated illnesses, they do not significantly reduce the costs of obesity. Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

Date: 2015
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