In fact, every patient involved in the study was already taking the highest dose of statins that they could tolerate The drug was tested only on people ALREADY TAKING STATINSpic.twitter.com/Fjqqk7TSdM
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In fact, every patient involved in the study was already taking the highest dose of statins that they could tolerate The drug was tested only on people ALREADY TAKING STATINSpic.twitter.com/Fjqqk7TSdM
Study is here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1803917 …
The other hilarious thing is that everyone is claiming that this drug has fewer side-effects than a statin, which is weird because a) it wasn't tested against statins and b) it definitely did cause side-effects
For example, about 1% of the intervention group got gout from the drug, which isn't ideal
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