Cholesterol Drug Doesn't Benefit Health

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Cholesterol Drug Doesn't Benefit Health
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Tue, 01-15-2008 - 11:43am
Cholesterol Drug Zetia Doesn't Benefit Health: Study 

Jan. 15 (HealthDay News)-- The long-awaited results of a trial of Zetia, a cholesterol-lowering drug prescribed to about a million Americans, shows the drug confers no medical benefit to users.


In fact, the pace at which artery-clogging plaques formed within vessels almost doubled in patients taking Zetia (ezetimibe) along with another cholesterol-lowering drug, Zocor (simvastatin), compared to those taking Zocor alone, the study found.


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Tue, 01-15-2008 - 12:01pm

Oh wow that is