Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "cardiovascular pharmacology"
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Genome-wide Association of Lipid-lowering Response to Statins in Combined Study Populations
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Background: Statins effectively lower total and plasma LDL-cholesterol, but the magnitude of decrease varies among individuals. To identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) contributing to this variation, we performed ... -
Luminal Flow Amplifies Stent-based Drug Deposition in Arterial Bifurcations
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Background: Treatment of arterial bifurcation lesions using drug-eluting stents (DES) is now common clinical practice and yet the mechanisms governing drug distribution in these complex morphologies are incompletely ...