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Old 01-15-2008, 10:50 AM
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Lightbulb ABC news...video

it is on the Yahoo page right now.

What this implies is that all the statins, except for Lipitor, are not FDA approved for reducing heart attack. If you read Cholesterol Myths...you will discover that the numbers on these studies are all massaged, and actual benefit is minute for all of them. Pfizer was locked in a head to head battle with Merck over Zocor.
They used a study two years ago to convince insurance companies to pay for Lipitor brand (with no increase of copay) instead of Vytorin (which has Zocor in it.) This is just a mathematical competition.

And BTW does Dr. Jarvik tell people on the commercial that low levels of CoQ-10 (which result from statin use) result in heart damage?

Nope. Low CoQ-10 is implicated in congestive heart failure/cardiomyopathy. In fact many heart transplants are done because of
weak muscle in the heart from viral infections or metabolic failures. Heart attacks don't always result in a heart transplant.
There are OTHER causes as well. And congestive heart failure is rising rapidly in this country among younger patients.
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