Re: Splitting Crestor

From: Jim Chinnis (jchinnis_at_SPAMalum.mit.edu)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:13:30 GMT

"Zee" <zwalanga@yahoo.com> wrote in part:

>You may only need a very small dose:
>
>http://www.medicationsense.com/articles/july_sept_04/crestor_truth.html

For an article touting itself as "sense" and "truth" it has a good deal of
nonsense and untruth. It cites the tired old "fact" that 60% or whatever of
statin patients discontinue due to "side effects." Tracking down the
citations, I find that this is based on two studies out of maybe 20 on the
subject; that it refers to elderly populations; and that the researchers
themselves (in a study with zero connection to pharma) state that
discontinuation very very unlikely to be due in any significant way on side
effects.

I wonder what the discontinuance rate is for Atkins, gym memberships, or Ace
inhibitors?

Etc., etc. 

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Jim Chinnis   Warrenton, Virginia, USA
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