Cholesterol Drugs Not Reducing Heart Attacks,Strokes

[Motion]

Originally Posted by laidbackhippie

Niacin lowers cholesterol .

What he said was that a study found that a niacin based drug raised the good cholesterol(HDL)but even doing so it didn't prevernt heart attacks and strokes.

[jtur88]

Freeze frame this 2003 Lipitor ad at the 37-second mark and read the fine print:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF998AD9mtQ

It's also on this 2002 Lipitor commercial, at the 39-second mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEsAL...eature=related

They say:

"Lipitor has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks".

[stepka]

Originally Posted by jtur88

They say:

"Lipitor has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks".

I was going to say the same thing. The companies who make the drug don't even claim that it prevents heart attacks. So the question is: why take it? To lower a number?