Lipid-lowering effect of preoperative statin therapy on postoperative major adverse cardiac events after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Objective: Statins are powerful lipid-lowering drugs that have been proved effective in the prevention of coronary artery disease, clearly reducing the risk of mortality and cardiovascular events. Whether hyperlipidemic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting profit from the lipid-lowering beneficial effects of statins is as yet uncertain. We sought to determine whether preoperative statin therapy may have an effect on outcome among hyperlipidemic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.