Sepsis Mortality in Critical Care and Prior Statin Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Central Argentina.

Introduction: Sepsis is a major public health problem, frequent, costly, and often fatal. Despite of improvements in supportive treatments the incidence of sepsis and the number of deaths related to sepsis is increasing. Statins have been recently proposed as adjuvants in the treatment of sepsis, but its effects on mortality show conflicting results worldwide.