No benefit from statin therapy in heart failure: GISSI-HF

The GISSI-HF trial found no clinical benefit from statin therapy in patients with chronic heart failure, results presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2008 show. Lead investigator Gianni Tognoni (Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy), presented the findings at the ESC congress. The results were simultaneously released online by The Lancet....