Re: Statins in primary prevention

From: at (chucks)
Date: 12/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:42:39 GMT

On 21 Dec 2004 04:14:21 GMT, listener <listener@nospam.net> wrote:

>David Rind <drind@caregroup.harvard.edu> wrote in news:cq7s1k$n3a$1
>@reader2.panix.com:
>
>> My news reader still seems to be missing a lot of these posts. My
>> apologies if this appears oddly "threaded".
>>
>> Zwalanga wrote:
>>> These studies are industry studies, with just about everyone weeded out
>>> who might scew it to industry disadvantage, using relative rather than
>>> absolute numbers and ending the trials before major side effects show
>>> up.
>>>
>>> I have every confidence that those who so adamantly stand on faith here
>>> will in the event that any or all statins are proven to be like Vioxx
>>> will suddenly have known it all along.
>
>
>
>> If you take the position that all favorable information about
>> medications published by drug companies is of no value, but that
>> negative information is true, then you will, of course, conclude that
>> the only believable "evidence" about medications is that they are
>> harmful. Not really worth discussing the issue further at that point.
>
>
>
>Well put and right on the nose.
>
>
>L.

Statins are going to go the same way Cox-2 inhibitors are going, just a
matter of time.
IMHO



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