Confounding of the association between statins and Parkinson disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Katsiaryna BykovKazuki YoshidaMarc G WeisskopfJoshua J Gagne

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2016)

The apparent protective effect of statins on risk of PD is at least partially explained by confounding by statin indication. Immortal time bias and healthy user effects also could have contributed to biased results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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