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    • ON: Thu Apr 3rd 08:28 AM
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      Merck, Schering-Plough: Confessions of a Vytorin Patient
      Amen to the above article.
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    • ON: Wed Apr 2nd 12:22 PM
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      Vytorin Battle Pits Merck and SGP against Pfizer
      These doctors are way out of control. Vytorin is a drug that lowers cholesterol better than Lipitor and Crestor. That is a fact.

      The Enhance study was done on a small number of patients with very high cholesterol, over 300. You cannot reduce plaque build up until you get the ldl down to below 100.

      Crestor recently stopped a study where it did notice a small amount of plaque regression. That study was done on patients with ldl of 170 and after high doses it came down by over 50% or about 80, below the 100 mark. Crestor is very potent, but is very toxic and many patients cannot handle it. Vytorin is much more tolerable. This is also something the Cardiac Panel did not address. Lipitor is the same as Crestor. Also, Zocor, which is part of Vytorin, is the same as Lipitor and Crestor. Zocor alone had no effect on the study group. Could it be the plaque build up in this group is just too stubborn, probably.

      I think the doctors are way off base totally dismissing the fact that LDL is not the issue and the only issue is plaque regression. LDL is very important to a patients cardiac health.

      I think the panel of cardiologists had an agenda which is why they did not even want to discuss Enhance in an open forum.

      The media has to get together, get informed and stop shooting from the hip.
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