Considerations about the association between preoperative statin administration and outcomes in patients undergoing CABG.

摘要

In a recent article on patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery, Huffmyer et al1 concluded that preoper-ative statin administration resulted in a decreased incidence of postoperative mortality and need for hemodialysis. The authors should be praised for their efforts in this important area. However, this research raises several issues. First, authors should specify if more variables were included into the database apart from the ones stated in the article and moreover if they were studied in a univariate analysis.