SCIENCE DIGEST: Study: Lipitor can cut risk of heart failure

February 7th, 2007 posted by kasume

SCIENCE DIGEST: Study: Lipitor can cut risk of heart failure (The Charlotte Observer)

Pfizer’s best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor, when given at high doses, cuts the risk patients will be hospitalized for heart failure by 26 percent, researchers said. Their study, appearing in Tuesday’s journal Circulation, found that the 80 milligram dose of Lipitor provided more protection against heart failure than the standard 10 mg dose. — bloomberg news

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