{"id":33369,"date":"2013-01-09T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:55:01","guid":{"rendered":null},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"merck-postpones-key-data-on-zetia-cholesterol-drug-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/merck-postpones-key-data-on-zetia-cholesterol-drug-to-2014\/33369","title":{"rendered":"merck postpones key data on zetia cholesterol drug to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"> (Reuters) &#8211; Merck &amp; Co Inc said on Wednesday that the<\/p>\n<p>expected a broad about its drug study data for<\/p>\n<p>Zetia cholesterol will be available in 2014 instead of the<\/p>\n<p>2013.<\/p>\n<p>essay on 18,000 patients, closely followed and<\/p>\n<p>called IMPROVE-IT, it was designed to assess whether combining Zetia<\/p>\n<p>with the oldest of so-called Merck cholesterol drug<\/p>\n<p>Zocor is more effective in reducing heart attacks and<\/p>\n<p>strokes (CVA) than Zocor alone.<\/p>\n<p>Zocor, known generically as simvastatin, is one<\/p>\n<p>similar to Lipitor from Pfizer Inc. Zetia Statin reduces the<\/p>\n<p>cholesterol using a method different. Merck Vytorin combines<\/p>\n<p>both drugs in a single pill, and is the product that is<\/p>\n<p>you are evaluating in the trial.<\/p>\n<p>the questions about combination therapy came<\/p>\n<p>then of that data on a prior trial, known as ENHANCE<\/p>\n<p>they thrown that Vytorin was no more effective at reducing plaque<\/p>\n<p>in the carotid artery that Zocor only and not respond the<\/p>\n<p>question about whether adding Zetia more decreased the rate of heart attacks.<\/p>\n<p>and while Vytorin Yes appeared better in decreasing of the<\/p>\n<p>&rsquo;bad&rsquo; LDL cholesterol, did not generate major changes in other<\/p>\n<p>key measurements in patients with a hereditary form of<\/p>\n<p>high cholesterol known as hypercholesterolemia family.<\/p>\n<p>is stipulated that the IMPROVE-IT trial ends once that<\/p>\n<p>5,250 episodes clinical, as attacks have reported<\/p>\n<p>cardiac or LCA.<\/p>\n<p>in March of this year, driver Security Committee of<\/p>\n<p>trial, an independent, entity data completed a second<\/p>\n<p>preliminary efficacy analysis and recommended not to change the design<\/p>\n<p>of the Studie. und sagte, dass er plante, \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen Sie die Daten wieder in<\/p>\n<p>etwa neun Monate.<\/p>\n<p>Merck darauf hingewiesen, dass die Revision nun auf verschoben hatte<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e4rz von 2013. basierend auf der aktuellen Rate, bei der sich<\/p>\n<p>Episoden, Unterrichtung, die Firma sagte, es erwartet, dass die Anzahl<\/p>\n<p>Ziel wird im Jahr 2014 erreicht werden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Merck &amp; Co Inc said on Wednesday that the expected a broad about its drug study data for Zetia cholesterol will be available in 2014 instead of the 2013. essay on 18,000 patients, closely followed and called IMPROVE-IT, it was designed to assess whether combining Zetia with the oldest of so-called Merck cholesterol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemeine","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-dentist-dentistry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}