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Cholesterol Drug Zetia Doesn't Cut Heart Attack Risk: Study
Date:1/14/2008

ho take these brand drugs probably don't need to; they could be taking a less expensive generic instead. This study lends support to that cost-saving strategy for the health system and for consumers," said Steven Findlay, managing editor of Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, a public information and education project of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.

"If there is no apparent clinical benefit, why take a drug that cost three or four times more?" Findlay said in a statement. "Most people do not need that magnitude of cholesterol reduction anyway."

Sales of Zetia and Vytorin totaled $3.7 billion in the nine months ending Sept. 30, up 33 percent from a year ago. Analysts estimate that about 70 percent of Schering-Plough's earnings depend on the drugs, the Times noted.

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There's more on lowering cholesterol at the American Heart Association.



SOURCES: Steven Nissen, M.D., chairman, department of cardiology, Cleveland Clinic; Howard Weintraub, M.D., clinical director, Center for the Prevention of Cardio-Vascular Disease, New York University Medical Center, and clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, New York City; Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, news release, Jan. 14, 2008; Consumers Union, news release, Jan. 14, 2008; The New York Times


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