Merck, Schering's Vytorin fails trial

I am a heart patient, and I am currently taking VYTORIN. I had a heart attack five months ago and had a stent inserted into one coronary arteries(LAD). I have no "knee jerk" plans to overreact and take myself off VYTORIN. I'm reasonable enough to know how to interpret the inconclusive drug trial results of Enhance. VYTORIN lowered LDL and CRP in the study, and given the very high statin dose (80 mg) used in both treatment groups, it would probably require a much larger patient population size and/or time duration to show a marginal improvement in that primary end point. My conclusion was that the study design wouldn't allow for a significant difference either way in the artery thickness results. Besides, letting the hysterical, publicity crazy, anti-corporate types scare me off a good cholesterol drug for my coronary condition would be fool hardy on my part.

high doses of niacin trumps all... anything else to date pales by comparison and is merely an artificial drug that may actually help in the short term, but it is more likely to cause side effects like the increase in cancer that has now been clearly shown to be the case for this drug. w/ niacin just start w/ 100mg tablets and take enough to where you feel a flush at least 3 times a day. in "8 weeks to a cure for cholesterol" you will see in chapter 8 how he says that if he had to pick on thing that saved his otherwise prematurely ended death-by-stroke life, it was niacin. you can just get it at any gnc... you can take e.g. 6x 500mg a day... but you want to carefully wean yourself on to it first because it tends to freak people out when they flush... in fact however, the flush is actually incredibly good for you clearly... this raises HDL (good cholesterol), lowers triglycerides, lowers cholesterol, and lowers bad cholesterol (VLDL)... statins can't do all of these together