Studies have shown patients who take statins within days of having a heart attack cut their risk of going on to have a stroke by half.
But although the high, 80-milligram dose of Lipitor cut heart attacks compared to the 10-mg starting dose, the increased dose did not cut down on the total number of deaths.
Instead, Taylor argues that adding Niaspan, a delayed release niacin made by Kos, cut heart attacks further.
But though these medicines on average cut heart attacks by at least one-third, they don't work for everyone.
These drugs, called statins, can cut heart attacks by one third or more in at-risk patients, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives a year in the United States alone.
There is no doubt that these medicines save lives--cholesterol pills such as Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor and Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor have been shown to cut heart attacks by one-third.
But other companies, such as Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ) and tiny Atherogenics (nasdaq: AGIX - news - people ), are also developing new medicines to further cut heart attacks.
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Medicines such as Lipitor, Zocor and Pravachol cut down on heart attacks and save lives.
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In midstage trials, the results of which were presented Sunday night at the annual meeting of American Heart Association, the medicine cut patients' levels of LDL, the bad cholesterol, by 60%.
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Doctors knew that high-powered cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor, called statins, cut the chance of heart attacks by about one-third.
Treatment with cholesterol-lowering medicines such as Lipitor, Zocor, and Crestor seems to cut the risk of heart attack by a third.
It's hoped that such drugs could further cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes, which kill 900, 000 people in the United States annually.
In the late 1990s many doctors believed postmenopausal women could cut their risk of heart disease by more than half with daily doses of hormones.
Pfizer has been hoping to extend the Lipitor franchise with a follow up drug, torcetrapib, to raise good cholesterol and further cut the rate of heart attacks.
Researchers found that participants taking Crestor cut their risk of heart attack, stroke and death by nearly half -- 44 percent -- compared with participants taking the placebo.
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