Statin use in patients with cirrhosis: a retrospective cohort study.

Sonal Kumar, Norman D Grace, Amir A Qamar

DOI: 10.1007/s10620-014-3179-2

Journal: Digestive diseases and sciences

In patients with cirrhosis, statin therapy is not associated with increased mortality and may delay decompensation, while Cox multivariate analysis for decompensation showed lower risk of decompensation with statins while increased decompensing with low albumin, high MELD score and beta-blocker use.