When the zetia website states this, what does it mean?!


Question: When the zetia website states this, what does it mean?
The effect of ZETIA on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has not been determined.

Am I paying $250 a month to field test my liver? Or am I actually hedging my bet against a cholesterol number above 300-400?

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No comment since Yahoo seems not to like it but I can clip a bit out an article the rest of which I will provide the url (link) for.
Personally would I touch this drug......not with a bargepole.

New evidence shows that the drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough have conducted several studies of their popular cholesterol medicine Zetia that raise questions about its risks to the liver, but the companies have never published those results.

( its now new now, its from 2007, so if someone can find the article that says they cleaned it up please do.)
EDIT for some odd reason the link is not live here just copy paste it into your browser

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/business/21drug.html



Ezetimibe is a drug that is used for the treatment of elevated blood cholesterol. The most commonly used class of drugs for lowering cholesterol levels, the statins, act by preventing the production of cholesterol by the liver. Ezetimibe has a different mechanism of action and lowers blood cholesterol by reducing the absorption of cholesterol from the intestine. It does not affect the absorption of triglycerides or fat-soluble vitamins. The FDA approved ezetimibe in October 2002.
Please see the web pages for more details on Ezetimibe (generic name) Zetia (brand name).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetia
http://www.medicinenet.com/ezetimibe/art…
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugi…



If you're paying $250 a month to lower your cholesterol, it means "there's a sucker born every minute".

Are you seriously paying money to keep your cholesterol numbers down?

When you can do it for free???

High cholesterol levels are caused by unintentional dehydration. There isn't a medication out there that isn't just a "band-aid" for the problem, no matter what it costs. These medications would have to treat for dehydration, and nothing does this except water - plain and simple.

Actually, there is no such thing as "bad" cholesterol because we don't use cholesterol obtained from outside sources - and the body will never produce anything that is harmful to it. The design of cholesterol isn't to cause health problems - this only happens when the warning signs of the underlying problem aren't recognized and corrected. Cholesterol is really designed to save your life.

When you don't drink enough water, you get dehydrated, which causes the blood to thicken and become acidic with toxins. As this blood passes through the lungs, it becomes even more dehydrated when more water is lost through the respiration process. Continuing on, the acidic blood enters the arteries under a shearing force that causes tiny cuts and abrasions to the inner walls.

To prevent these from peeling off and causing an embolism in the brain or other organ, LDL (or the so-called "bad") cholesterol is produced to cover the damage and protect the arteries until the body makes the needed repairs.

The problem comes in when the medical profession refuses to recognize dehydration at this stage where health problems originate, because most health problems are caused by dehydration.

It should be noted that testing for cholesterol is done in the veins of the arm. Yet, there's never been a single documented case where the veins have become clogged with cholesterol. If the so-called "facts" about "bad cholesterol" were true, then the veins - which are much smaller and where the blood flows much slower - should be the first to feel the effects of cholesterol blockage.

This means that because the arteries are targeted specifically, there must be something that triggers it - and that something is the damage caused by dehydration.

Click below to learn how to lower your cholesterol - at no cost to you.

http://watercure2.org/mankind.htm




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