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Study Reveals Doubt on Drug for Cholesterol


Health & Wellness  (tags: zetia, vytorin, cholesterol, studies, medicine, treatment, research, drugs )

Gregory
- 680 days ago - nytimes.com
Merck and Schering-Plough, which make the drug, Zetia, and a pill that contains it, Vytorin, said Monday morning that Zetia had failed to benefit patients in a two-year trial that ended in April 2006.
Comments

Robin B. (14)
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 8:11 am
my husband takes this, that is scary
 

Scott Shaubel (816)
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 9:38 am
Most of the drugs manufactured by the pharma companies, do nothing for you(except mentally) but require you to take another drug to mask the side effects of the previous drug. Flouride is the most detrimental additive put in the pills.( sodium flouride is deadly(rat poison, look it up) I know. Until 7 months ago, I was bipolar 2, taking 19 to 30 various prescription pills every day for the last 30 years. I was told that it was incurable. what a bunch of bull. I - for the last 7 months, have taken NO drugs, but coffee, I now take vitamins(b6+b12) www.true hope .com - www.truehope.net.
Drink half your weight in ounces of water every day, as dehydration is the cause of most diseases and illness.(200pounds=100ounces of water a day).
Stay away from all apartates and glutamates, and try to eat as much unprocessed food as possible.
It is more possible to stay healthy, with this formula, than taking pharma drugs.
North American Indians didn't have pharma drugs, and they also had no health problems.
 

Jessica C. (129)
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 12:11 pm
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Big Pharma will always put profits first. That's why--even if I do come into some health insurance at some point in the future--I will only opt for natural medicine.
 

Arlette S. (140)
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 12:13 pm
Our body is the expression of our thinking, most times unconscious thinking. We have to become responsible (in the meaning of "able to respond") of our own health. Healthy food for the body and soul !
 

Judy Cross (81)
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 2:46 pm
The cholesterol theory of heart disease is a cause of declaring a symptom the cause.

The body lays cholesterol down in the arteries in an effeort to reinforce them It is a symptom of sub-clinical scurvey and Vit C is the missing factor.http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/vitcheart.htm
 

RC deWinter (418)
Thursday January 17, 2008, 4:35 pm
I discussed this with my doctor just yesterday. He said that what this study actually means is that ZETIA ALONE has no effect on preventing heart attacks...my doc put me on Vytorin after the Lipitor I was taking failed to lower my bad cholesterol enough and kept my levels of good cholesterol low. After a month on vytorin my triglycerides were cut in hlf an my good cholesterol had risen 8 points. I woulnt' worry too much about Vytorin. Zetia alone is a very weak drug and generally prescribed ALONE only for patients that cannot tolerate any other drug to lower their cholesterol/triglyceride counts.
 
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