We used competing risks analyses to evaluate atherothrombotic events in the context of death from other
cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular causes. We also performed traditional Cox survival analyses of the same data
with the intention that these statistical approaches would be complementary. CORONA participants (n=5011,
median follow-up 32.8 months) were older and sicker than GISSI-HF participants (n=4574, median follow-up
46.9 months) by design. Rosuvastatin decreased risk for myocardial infarction (MI) among CORONA and GISSI-HF
participants with ischaemic aetiology of HF (hazard ratio 0.81, 95% confidence interval 0.66–0.99, P