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		<title>Heart screening tests</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2011/02/21/heart-screening-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer Reports is to be congratulated on its ratings for heart screening tests. In much the same way this popular magazine has always presented test results for toasters, cars, and sneakers, CR has assessed the research supporting nine heart screening tests. Only two---blood pressure measurement and the standard blood test---have strong evidence indicating that the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. 

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		<title>Statins don&#8217;t work for people w/o heart disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, statins don’t cut your chance of dying from anything. “There’s no lifesaving benefit to statins for people without heart disease when you look at deaths from all causes in the less biased trials,” said Jim M. Wright, MD, PhD. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, the lead author of the new analysis. “The number of people who died in the placebo group was the same as the number of people who died in the statin group.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=6437&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Yeast Rice Supplements: Not a Safe Alternative to Statins</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/01/red-yeast-rice-supplements-not-a-safe-alternative-to-statins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people who cannot tolerate any of the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins (e.g., Lipitor, Pravachol, Zocor) turn to an herbal supplement called red yeast rice, which lowers the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Statin intolerance is most often chalked up to muscle pain (myalgia). A rare side effect of all statins is the potentially fatal disease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2677&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Closer Look at Statin&#8217;s Benefit</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/12/01/take-a-closer-look-at-statins-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/12/01/take-a-closer-look-at-statins-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current practice of advising healthy adults to go on prolonged drug therapy just got a big boost from a large international trial. It found that people with normal cholesterol can halve their risk for heart attack and stroke by taking the cholesterol-lowering statin drug Crestor (generic name: rosuvastatin). Although at low risk for heart disease, all the participants had high blood levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP, which indicates the presence of inflammation within the artery walls.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Anyone Taking Zetia or Vytorin?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/10/01/why-is-anyone-taking-zetia-or-vytorin/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/10/01/why-is-anyone-taking-zetia-or-vytorin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no proof that Zetia can do anything beyond lowering cholesterol—no evidence that it can reduce heart attacks or cardiovascular disease, which, of course, is the ultimate goal. Once again, this blockbuster drug sold alone or as a combination medicine has produced negative clinical trial results. This time it failed to provide any benefit to people with heart-valve disease. Worse, there were more cancers and cancer deaths among the drug-treated participants than in those taking a placebo, though these findings are described as “due to chance.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1183&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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