Statin Treatment and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Frail Older Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Observational Study

• Alberto Pilotto ,

  * E-mail: alberto.pilotto@galliera.it (AP); geriat.dot@geriatria.uniba.it (FP)

  Affiliations Department of OrthoGeriatrics, Rehabilitation and Stabilization, Frailty Area, E.O. Galliera Hospital, National Relevance and High Specialization Hospital, Genova, Italy, Geriatrics Unit, Azienda ULSS 16 Padova, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy

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• Francesco Panza ,

  * E-mail: alberto.pilotto@galliera.it (AP); geriat.dot@geriatria.uniba.it (FP)

  Affiliations Neurodegenerative Disease Unit, Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy, Gerontology-Geriatrics Research Laboratory, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

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• Massimiliano Copetti,

  Affiliation Unit of Biostatistics, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy

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• Matteo Simonato,

  Affiliation Geriatrics Unit, Azienda ULSS 16 Padova, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy

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• Daniele Sancarlo,

  Affiliation Gerontology-Geriatrics Research Laboratory, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

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• Pietro Gallina,

  Affiliation Health Directorate, Azienda ULSS 16, Padova, Italy

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• Timo Strandberg,

  Affiliations Geriatric Clinic, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Health Sciences/Geriatrics, University of Oulu, and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

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• MPI_AGE Project Investigators

  ¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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