[NPInfo] re: Question from Dave

[Priscilla Merrill]

What I recall from the studies was that the numbers DO go down but the Zetia
portion somehow invites more plaque formation than the statin alone.  They
are thinking the study wasn't a good one and the results inconclusive.
So you are correct in your statement, "maybe we don't know".  That sums it
up.

Priscilla

-----Original Message-----
From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
Of David Mittman
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:24 PM
To: NP Info
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] re: Question from Dave

I think we all deserve to give a bit of time to all this. consensusI  
would not start new prescriptions but if you were on these products  
and your numbers dropped, keep taking until concensus is reached.  
Some common sense is needed here. If it did not work empirically, why  
did people prescribe it? Don't tell me it was just marketing? If I  
had a patient taking a med for 8 weeks and nothing was happening  
therapeutically, I would switch to another pretty fast. Marketing  
works but not if the drug does not work. Maybe it's all the placebo  
effect BUT if your cholesterol levels go down is that bad? The real  
answer may be we don't know?
Anyway, please continue to let me know what you are doing?
Much thanks.
Dave


On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:09 PM, stephanie2u at optonline.net wrote:

> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: GIN11153 at aol.com
> Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:10 pm
> Subject: [NPInfo] re: Question from Dave
> To: NPInfo at nurse.net
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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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