[NPInfo] re: Question from Dave

[stephanie2u at optonline.net]

But why even bother to take a lipid lowering drug when its main purpose is to reduce your risk of heart attack? 

They shouldn't have marketed it so aggressively if there was no proof it could reduce morbidity or mortality.

Stephanie Walker, FNP

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From: GIN11153 at aol.com
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:10 pm
Subject: [NPInfo] re: Question from Dave
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> 
> I asked my cardiologist a few weeks ago what he's doing, as he 
> and I both 
> take it. He said he has no plans to stop taking it or to stop 
> prescribing it. He 
> said that it lowers cholesterol and triglycerides as it's 
> supposed to do and 
> said the hoopla is ridiculous . It was never marketed as a drug 
> to prevent 
> heart attacks. 
> 
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