--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My complaint was not that the study might have been > rigged to make a > particular company's drug look better than the > other, but the implication > of the story that huge numbers of people who are not > on medication now > apparently need to be on daily medication for the > rest of their lives.
Well, it's hard to know. Prava 10 is pretty ineffective in terms of power, but it still seems to have some M&M impact. But, say, Lipitor 20 is both quite powerful and very safe. If everyone with even mildly high cholesterol were on Lipitor 20 it would almost certainly save _a lot_ of lives. We knew that before PROVE-IT, though. ASCOT (for example) has pretty strongly reemphasized that point, though. If you're a diabetic, for example, you should be on a statin. So I'm not sure why you disagree with the implication. All PROVE-IT really demonstrated was that Lipitor is better at doing something that _we already knew statins do_ - save lives. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
