Table 6.

Studies of statin effect on post-stroke infection

Study	Publication	N	Region	Center/design	Age	Women (%)	Population	Prestroke statin use (%)	Effect on infection Findings
Rodríguez de Antonio et al. [80]	2011	2,045	Spain	Single	69	43	AIS	15.0	Non-significant unadjusted OR, 0.89 (0.61-1.29)
Rodríguez-Sanz et al. [81]	2013	1,385	Spain	Single	68	40	AIS	26.5	Non-significant OR not provided
Becker et al. [82]	2013	112	USA	Single	57	35	AIS	70.5	Non-significant OR, 5.37 (0.81-35.37)
Scheitz et al. [79]	2015	481	Germany	Single	74	50	AIS with IV-TPA	17.3	Significant, less pneumonia OR, 0.31 (0.10-0.94)