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...Steve Nissen, the chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, believes that they might have...
...According to Nissen, the results indicate that treatment with statins will only affect a small percentage of the population. He said that he has seen figures suggesting that only a few million individuals would be prescribed statins if the effects of Ridker’s study become widely accepted...
...This is unprecedented," says Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic, who is familiar with the study but did not participate in it. "I have never seen a result of this magnitude reduction in risk." The results were significant enough to stop the study three years early...
...many experts, the results were both a surprise and a warning. "The fact that the trial showed a huge LDL reduction, and that things were still going the wrong way [in terms of plaque buildup] is stunning," says Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and an outspoken critic of the delay in the release of the study results. "This study shows that it matters how you lower cholesterol, not just how much you lower cholesterol...
...timely and appropriate way," she says. That may prove to be a key issue as the FDA, scientists, investors and patients weigh their next move on Avandia. Merck's undoing, after all, wasn't just the data; it was concerns over the disclosure of it. Says Nissen: "There will be a lot of questions about who knew what, when...