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Physicians Anticipate Higher Prescribing Based on JUPITER Study
December 11th, 2008
Just three days after the JUPITER trial results were presented at the American Heart Association meeting and simultaneously published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, an AlphaDetail survey of more than 100 primary care physicians shows that physicians anticipate a 14% increase in the use of drug therapy among their hypercholesterolemia patients, particularly for low to moderate risk patients. The JUPITER study showed that CRESTOR (rosuvastatin calcium) 20 mg significantly reduced major cardiovascular (CV) events by 44% compared with placebo among men and women with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) but low to normal low density...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-12-11)
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