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At the recent American College of Cardiology meeting in late March 2008, an expert panel of cardiologists determined that the ENHANCE study put Vytorin and Zetia in a bad light, and recommended that doctors go back to prescribing statins alone. Here is a media summary of that: http://www.cnbc.com/id/23871395. As a result of this panel's recommendations in late March 2008, what have you done?
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1.4/22/2008 6:09:00 PMMost ACC 'experts' are not any more 'expert' than other cardiologists.
2.4/22/2008 6:37:00 PMSee my answer to #7 above
3.4/22/2008 7:56:00 PMI have decrease prescriptions for Vytorin, but not for Zetia
4.4/22/2008 10:03:00 PMno change
5.4/23/2008 5:23:00 AMI have stopped prescribing Vytorin
6.4/23/2008 10:11:00 AMNever prescribed in the first place.
7.4/23/2008 1:35:00 PMThe ACC panel was an embarassment to the ACC. It was NOT a scientific discussion, it was a diatrribe by one member who attempted to thrust his strong opinions on all. It was a great diservice to the cardiology community and resulted in unecessarily scaring many patients.
8.4/23/2008 2:37:00 PMI did not prescribe Vytorin, but Zetia for statin intolerance
9.4/23/2008 4:21:00 PMThere have not been enough situations to make a generalised answer
10.4/24/2008 4:46:00 AMi have never started vytorin
11.4/24/2008 1:58:00 PMNever used Vytorin
12.4/25/2008 12:18:00 AMI did not use Zetia much as there are no outcome data. Statins work!
13.4/27/2008 9:11:00 PMI didn't prescribe it prior, anyway
14.5/2/2008 1:52:00 AMthe ACC expert panel was NEITHER expert nor a panel! it was a one doc polemic with little scientific justification