Study Casts Doubt on Cholesterol Drug

You might not need this crap, if you were fit instead of fat.

"A clinical trial has shown that the combination cholesterol drug Vytorin is no more effective than a high dose of one of its components available generically, Vytorin's makers said Monday...

In December, a congressional committee requested more information on the study. The results were delayed, the companies maintained, because of the complexity of the data."

If this data is so complex, how can you trust the original data?

You can't. BTW, why didn't they discover this link before releasing the drug?

"In the quarter ended Sept. 30, sales of Zetia and Vytorin hit $1.3 billion, up 26 percent from the year-ago period. Merck and Schering-Plough market Zetia and Vytorin jointly and split the profits."

Could it be the money? Now that it has been milked for all it was worth, the data can come out.

"Vytorin, developed by Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp., is a combination of Zetia and Merck's Zocor, which lost patent protection in 2006."

Better to be fit, than sick from this stuff.

And if you think that the diet drugs and surgeries are safe, you really have to be stupid.

For the rest of us to keep paying for the rescue of the nutritionally irresponsible is also stupid.

Stand up.