Papers of the Week

Randomized controlled trials evaluating the potential value of statin administration for intensive care unit patients have not observed a benefitHowever, the chronic preadmission use of statins among patients admitted to the intensive care unit has not been robustly studied WHAT THIS ARTICLE TELLS US THAT IS NEW: Single-center retrospective data suggest that preadmission statin use may be associated with decreased 90-day mortality among some intensive care unit patientsSpecific statin agents and noncardiovascular mortality may demonstrate a stronger signal for further study BACKGROUND:: This study aimed to examine the association between preadmission statin use and 90-day mortality in critically ill patients and to investigate whether this association differed according to statin type and dose. We hypothesized that preadmission statin use was associated with lower 90-day mortality.