Diana - Zetia was the drug. here is a quote NYT and Jenny's site. Actually I googled it when I got home from this former doctor, and after reading essentially what Jenny reported, threw the samples and the Rx away. Got new doctor.
Quote:
On January 14, 2008 the New York Times reported that the drug companies finally released their big study on Zetia/Vytorin. Here is what the report stated:
While Zetia lowers cholesterol by 15 to 20 percent in most patients, no trial has ever shown that it can reduce heart attacks and strokes — or even that it reduces the growth of the fatty plaques in arteries that can cause heart problems.
This trial was designed to show that Zetia could reduce the growth of those plaques.Instead, the plaques actually grew almost twice as fast in patients taking Zetia along with Zocor than in those taking Zocor alone.
In short, not only did the drug not prevent heart disease, it appears to make it worse!
So now we know why they tried to suppress the publication of the study and "redefine" the measured endpoint--which included the thickness of plaque.
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