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DE Newby holds, or has held, unrestricted educational grant awards for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and R.W. Johnson. He has undertaken paid consultancy for AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
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Newby, D. Can intensive statin therapy cause regression of coronary atherosclerosis?. Nat Rev Cardiol 3, 354–355 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio0604
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