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View Post: Why you should stop taking Vytorin for high cholesterol
KevinMD.com
16 Nov 2009 by Kevin   ...
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View Post: Niacin beats statin drug – head to head. Cheaper and more ...
16 Nov 2009 by Brad Weeks, MD  
He was referring to the results of a study that compared niacin — a form of vitamin B — to Zetia in high-risk patients who need more than a drug like Lipitor or Crestor to control their cholesterol. The niacin used in the study is not ...
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View Post: Dr. Mintz' Blog: Generic and Therapeutic Substitutions
16 hours ago by Dr. Matthew Mintz  
Thus, if the patient got switched and needed more cholesterol lowering than the simvastatin could provide (which is why I would write Crestor or Lipitor in the first place), that patient's cholesterol levels could be too high despite ...
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View Post: Low HDL cholesterol
17 Nov 2009
To heartwire, Karas said that although statins reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, event rates in statin-treated patients remain unacceptably high. It is unclear, he said, whether the cardiovascular disease risk associated with ...
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View Post: FuturePundit: Simvastatin Stops Parkinson's Disease In Mice
29 Oct 2009 by Randall Parker  
Since Simvastatin is sold by Merck as Zocor and since at least some older patients with Parkinson's also have high cholesterol I wonder how difficult it would be to measure Parkinson's progression in patients already taking Zocor. ...
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View Post: Epoch Times - Dangers of Statin Drugs
16 Nov 2009 by Sally Falon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D./The Weston...  
High cholesterol exhibits no outward signs—unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anemia, diseases that manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness—hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a physician to ...
View Blog: Epoch Times

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View Post: Merck Expresses Confidence In The Efficacy And Safety Profiles O
15 Nov 2009
Merck Expresses Confidence In The Efficacy And Safety Profiles Of ZETIA (ezetimibe) And VYTORIN (ezetimibe/simvastatin) As Effective Medicines For Managing Elevated Cholester. ... ZETIA, along with diet, is indicated for use either by itself or together with statins or fenofibrate in patients with high cholesterol to reduce LDL cholesterol and total cholesterol when the response to diet and exercise has been inadequate. ZETIA is a prescription medication and should not be ...
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View Post: Cardiovascular Outcomes with Ezetimibe and Simvastatin Similar to ...
18 Nov 2009
“In this large cohort of patients at high risk for future adverse cardiovascular outcomes, there were no significant differences in health outcomes measured when comparing combination therapy to monotherapy alone,” said Scott D. Ramsey ... Prescription Solutions conducted this study because cholesterol-lowering drugs, particularly statins, are among its most widely prescribed medications. The company routinely conducts scientific studies on various disease states as a way ...
View Blog: Drugs.com - Clinical Trials - http://www.drugs.com/clinical_trials.html

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View Post: foodconsumer.org - Vitamin B niacin offers no extra benefits to ...
19 Nov 2009
"Our findings tell us that improved cholesterol levels from taking combination vitamin B niacin and statin therapy do not necessarily translate into observable benefits in reversing and stalling carotid artery disease," said Lima, ... Brown BG and colleagues from the University of Washington School Medicine in Seattle wrote that combined use of niacin (2 to 3 grams per day) and simvastatin offered benefits on serum high density lipid protein or HDL cholesterol and ...
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