Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyses of 50 Randomized Controlled Trials

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Outcomes of the NMAs</td><td class="align_center">Inconsistency was observed between direct and indirect evidences in these comparisons</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">LDL-C</td><td class="align_center">Placebo vs. lovastatin</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">HDL-C</td><td class="align_center">Placebo vs. lovastatin</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">TC</td><td class="align_center">Placebo vs. fluvastatin; placebo vs. lovastatin</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">TG</td><td class="align_center">Placebo vs. lovastatin</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">ApoA1</td><td class="align_center">Placebo vs. fluvastatin; fluvastatin vs. atorvastatin</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">ApoB</td><td class="align_center">None</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Inconsistency revealed in the node-splitting tests.</div>

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Table 4: Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyses of 50 Randomized Controlled Trials 

Table 4 | Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyses of 50 Randomized Controlled Trials 