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Statin update



Panel's ties to drugmakers not cited in new cholesterol guidelines

BY DELTHIA RICKS AND RONI RABIN

July 15, 2004

Guidelines published by a government panel earlier this week, calling for
aggressive use of statin medications to lower cholesterol in people at high
risk of heart attacks, failed to list panelists' links to pharmaceutical
companies, many of which manufacture statin drugs.

Of the nine panelists, six had received grants or consulting or speakers'
fees from companies that produce some of the most popular statin medications
on the market, according to published material from 2001. Those drugs
include Pfizer's Lipitor; Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pravachol, Merck's
Lovastatin and AstraZeneca's Crestor. ...

<http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hschol0715,0,847235.story?coll=ny-health-headlines>

Carl

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