How Long Are Stress Tests Results Valuable?
of patients taking statin medications, there was a 2.7% increase in patients taking simvistatin and a 0.4% increase in patients taking high dose atorvastatin. The overall consensus of this study was that high dose statin therapy can halt or slow the progression of obstructive coronary disease. In the absence of symptoms, usually we will repeat a stress in patients with known disease. Markers of arterial inflammation such as CRP can help identify patients whose disease might be active and who need more intensive monitoring and therapy.
