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Statin Trials Data Access

Debate over access to participant-level data from randomized statin trials

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Feb 8, 2026

Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' Collaboration release of independent patient data to independent researchers

is a long-established, investigator-led meta‑analysis consortium that holds pooled individual participant data (IPD) from and has used those IPD to publish major findings on efficacy and major outcome...

Feb 6, 2026

Release of patient level data for statin trials

A long-running debate over (individual patient) data from randomized statin trials centers on whether independent researchers can fully assess benefits and harms; campaigners and some journals demand ...