Reaven was also first to find a strong correlation between insulin resistance and heart attacks.
Adding Zetia to Zocor, he said, might lower cholesterol levels without reducing heart attacks and strokes.
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Unlike all those medicines, there is no evidence that Zetia prevents heart attacks or strokes.
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Then it turned out to cause heart attacks and deaths in a giant trial.
But surely she had been encouraged to do these things after her first two heart attacks.
His cardiologist and ophthalmologist advised he continue using Lucentis after he suffered two heart attacks.
Frequent dozing was not linked to heart attacks, of which there were 53, the study found.
But that could mean thousands of extra heart attacks if the risks don't balance out.
Merck yanked Vioxx in 2004 after finding it boosted the risk of heart attacks.
It showed a 61% decrease in heart attacks for women who took hormones after menopause.
Doctors check it to predict whether patients are at risk for heart attacks and strokes.
But he points out that more heart attacks were prevented than bleeds were caused.
Statistically, it is also the time of weight gain, heart attacks, depression and suicide.
People commonly have heart attacks and strokes anyway, no matter what drugs they're taking.
The most impressive experimental drug Schering is developing is an anti-clot agent to prevent heart attacks.
Heart attacks were induced in both castrated and noncastrated rat groups before treatments started.
There is no evidence, Stone says, that angioplasty reduces the number of deaths and heart attacks.
Heart attacks are by far the No. 1 killer of both men and women.
Heart attacks and strokes are the leading killers in America, taking nearly 1 million lives annually.
Accusations include increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding and heart attacks and slowdowns in the ulcer-healing process.
Indeed, research has long shown that people with high HDL levels face fewer heart attacks.
It was later withdrawn from the market after it was shown to cause heart attacks.
To prove it prevents heart attacks, Glaxo is running two trials in a combined 27, 000 patients.
Medicines such as Lipitor, Zocor and Pravachol cut down on heart attacks and save lives.
Niacin was always known to raise good cholesterol and appears also to prevent heart attacks.
He looked at 42 clinical trials, and counted the number of patients who had heart attacks.
There were 1, 061 heart attacks in the group over the 18 years of the study.
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High cholesterol is one of the most important risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks.
"I don't think anyone knows if they prevent heart attacks, " says Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Steven Nissen.
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