Re: Gout from Lipitor damage? NAPROXEN increases heart attack risk. BEWARE

From: Don Kirkman (donkirk_at_covad.net)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:40:38 -0800

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Sharon Hope wrote in article
<mANyd.281110$HA.94857@attbi_s01>:

>Synonymous, for example the study abstract
>http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/286/8/954

>JAMA, Vol. 286, No. 8, August 22, 2001,
>Risk of Cardiovascular Events Associated With Selective COX-2 Inhibitors
>Debabrata Mukherjee, MD; Steven E. Nissen, MD; Eric J. Topol, MD

>JAMA. 2001;286:954-959.

>Author Affiliations: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland
>Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

>"cardiovascular event (myocardial infarction, stroke, and death) "

>And , per NIH Medical Encyclopedia:
>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000195.htm
>Definition: A heart attack (myocardial infarction) occurs when an area of
>heart muscle dies or is permanently damaged because of an inadequate supply
>of oxygen to that area.

>Thus the synonymous "cardiovascular event" , "myocardial infarction", and
>the common vernacular "heart attack"

The definition of "heart attack" and its cognates is not at issue; you
said the FDA *warned* of additional risk of heart attack. Where is that
warning to be found? 

-- 
Don
donkirk@covad.net

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