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Tuesday, December 07, 2004For this latest study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reviewed records on 1,718 people who had been admitted to 36 hospitals with a nonfatal first heart attack, and compared them to 6,800 people who had not had a heart attack from the same geographical area. People who had taken Vioxx had a 2.72 times higher chance of having a heart attack compared to people taking Celebrex. People taking Vioxx also had a higher risk for heart attack than did patients taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen. "It appears that not all cox-2 inhibitors are the same with respect totheir effect on heart risk," said Stephen Kimmel, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Penn. "We can't exclude a small increase in risk from Celebrex. We just didn't see one here." Hard to say how much significance to place on this study without knowing how well the researchers controlled for differences between groups of people. Was there something about Vioxx users (aside from Vioxx) that made them more vulnerable to heart attacks than the Celebrex users? (age, smoking habits, cholesterol, etc.) posted by Sydney on 12/07/2004 11:42:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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