Other competitors in the technology sector include: Parametric Technology (PMTC), Adobe Systems (ADBE), and Cimatron (CIMT).

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The CIMT technique was also used in a study called ENHANCE, which precipitated the drop in Vytorin sales.

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But if CIMT didn't work in CASHMERE, why assume it worked in ENHANCE?

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But several top cardiologists say that drawing any conclusions about CIMT in general or ENHANCE in particular is going a step too far.

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Krumholz, one of the most prominent critics of Vytorin and Zetia, says anyone who is trying to help the drugs by discrediting CIMT is missing the point.

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"To say that this study reflects on ENHANCE in any way is a huge stretch of the imagination, " says James Stein, a CIMT expert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Everybody knows how Lipitor works, Hazlett argued, so the problem must be the study, which used a technique called carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) to measure the thickness of the walls of an artery in the neck.

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