In his editorial Dr. Grundy was critical of Dr. Karas's paper and noted that the FDA conducted a "careful and through analysis of the same data" and came up with a different conclusion. Wolfe, M. Moreover, during the press briefing Dr. Grundy flatly stated that even with the report from Dr. Karas and colleagues he had "no evidence that one statin is safer than another. He added that even when muscle or kidney problems are reported those "events seem dose related and will reverse when the drug is stopped or the dose lowered.
The statin guidelines list as high risk individuals: frail elderly over age 80 who have small body frames, patients with multisystem disease, patients following surgery, patients taking multiple drugs, patients consuming more than a quart of grapefruit juice daily, and patients who abuse alcohol. Grundy was also critical of the study design with combined a relatively minor endpoint -- proteinuria -- with severe endpoints such as renal failure.
In the statin called Baycol cerivastatin was withdrawn from the market after reports of a significant increase in risk of rhabdomyolysis. Karas included Baycol in a comparison of adverse events reported during the first year of marketing of statins. In that first year of marketing analysis compares adverse events of each drug during its first year on the market , Crestor had fewer serious adverse events reported than Baycol P There were fewer deaths related to the composite endpoint among patients taking Crestor or Zocor -- but there were more deaths from all causes among people taking Crestor, although the numbers were low -- six deaths among Crestor-treated patients, three for Zocor, one for Pravachol and two among patients taking Lipitor.
Alice K. Jacobs, M. High cholesterol is a risk factor for heart attacks and coronary heart disease, because it builds up in the arteries, narrowing them.
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Of these post-approval cases, one case of rhabdomyolysis occurred in the United States, where the drug had only been on the market for little over five months, as did two cases of kidney toxicity. The other cases of rhabdomyolysis and drug-induced kidney disease occurred in the UK or Canada, where the drug had been on the market for a longer time. We have now obtained new information from the FDA about many additional post-marketing cases of rhabdomyolysis and kidney toxicity in reports updated to April 13th.
In the relatively short interval since our first petition, 11 additional cases of rhabdomyolysis in patients using rosuvastatin, including at least 10 in the United States, have been reported to the FDA, as have three additional cases of renal failure or renal insufficiency in the United States, all in people using 10 milligrams. Of the 10 new U. Five of the eight U.
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