Current guidelines do not explicitly recommend statin use in heart failure (HF). Relatively low num-bers of atherothrombotic events among HF patients, in the context of their elevated competing risks fornon-atherothrombotic causes of death, may have prevented previous analyses of clinical trials from detecting abenet for statins. We pooled data from two landmark trials of HF patients not on statin therapy randomized torosuvastatin 10 mg daily vs. placebo, CORONA and GISSI-HF, in order to improve our power to detect statisticallysignicant differences in atherothrombotic events. We also accounted for competing risks from other causes ofdeath.