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

From: Sharon Hope (shope_at_anet.net)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:08:12 GMT

The FDA advisory includes specific instructions to patients. That quite
obviously constitutes a warning. That is why the news media made it so
widely known.

You may split hairs with the FDA if you object to the words they chose, but
it is clear that the advisory is a warning.

"Don Kirkman" <donkirk@covad.net> wrote in message
news:s02ps0debo35hock2sibj18de8nio5tnlv@4ax.com...
> 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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