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Originally Posted by nide44
Last nite on Nat'l news on TV, a blurb about Zetia being of 'no value'
in plaque control of the neck arteries.
Whattheheck is that all about?
Big Deal regarding Zetia in combination with another drug (I've forgotten the name-
but its the one advertised on TV)) was expected to show signs of reduced plaque,
and didn't. It didn't live up to 'expectations'
I've been taking Zetia alone (before the TV comm'ls)
for about 3 1/2 yrs for cholesterol reduction.
Works fine for me.
I asn't expecting any plaque reduction as my doc has never tested for it
and don't think we haveta test for it.
Big scare about this one drug that's a combo of a statin & Zetia,
not being of expected 'value' and other mentions of lawsuits and drugs taken off the market... as well as studies being squelched, or at least delayed..... in publishing results to the public.
Seems to me like a 'scare tactic' and over-blown knee jerk reaction on a minor point. Don't think that the drug in question claimed to reduce plaque, altho it may have touted being 'better' for the heart..
I guess Sunday nite is a slow news nite. Sheesh !!
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I just saw the video for this today. Here is what I think:
The video says that Vytorin being used -- is a waste .. that it prevents more effective treatments. Well, this tells me that our friend Pfizer is at the root of this study. Vytorin has Zocor in it. Zocor is a statin and lowers cholesterol effectively. But the heart of this critique is that Pfizer paid big bucks to run a study showing Lipitor actually reduces heart attacks. (Zocor "used" to advertise this too, in the past"). The recent Lipitor commercials says ONLY
Lipitor is approved by FDA to lower heart attack. This is just a manipulative ploy to sell more Lipitor before it goes off patent.
No statin reduces plaque already there in place.
Read this about Dr. Jarvik:
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/...e-lipitor-man/
Quote:
“In the ads, Dr. Jarvik appears to be giving medical advice, but apparently, he has never obtained a license to practice or prescribe medicine,” John Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the committee, said in a press release.
Dingell’s not the first to ask questions. NBC’s science guru Robert Bazell wrote last year that while Jarvik is an M.D., he doesn’t have “the strongest credentials.” His grades as an undergrad at Syracuse University weren’t good enough for U.S. med school, so he attended the University of Bologna in Italy, leaving after two years. In 1976, Jarvik graduated from the University of Utah’s med school, but he never did an internship or practiced medicine, Bazell wrote.
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It is all smoke and mirrors.
It is all word salad to me!
And the artificial heart was a failure...do you see anyone with one? In fact the patients who decided to try it
suffered greatly before they died.
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