The questions identified pertained to: i) the lack of a significant effect in favour of atorvastatin for the composite primary endpoint and several secondary endpoints in the female subgroup, ii) the exclusion of non-diabetic patients at high cardiovascular risk from the proposed indication, iii) the higher cardioprotective effect of atorvastatin when used in combination with particular antihipertensive therapies iv) the extent to which the claimed therapeutic indication could be applied to atorvastatin doses other than those tested in the pivotal trials