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

From: listener (listener_at_nospam.net)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: 25 Dec 2004 15:23:04 GMT

"Sharon Hope" <shope@anet.net> wrote in
news:gY3zd.237326$5K2.175138@attbi_s03:

> 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.

In some circles it's known as "critical thinking" which, apparently, when
you do it (to a degree) it's fine but when others do it you dismiss it,
ridicule it or ignore it.

Sophomoric L.

> "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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