In the United States, prescriptions for Vytorin and Zetia have fallen 40 percent this year.
在美国,今年Vytorin和Zetia的处方量下跌了40%。
The Enhance trial was not an events trial and was not intended to study whether Zetia or Vytorin were effective at reducing heart attacks.
Enhance试验并不是大规模的临床试验,因为这项试验不是为了研究Zetia或者Vytorin是否对降低心脏病的发病率有效果。
“The only place people should be taking it is in a clinical trial, ” Dr. Allen J. Taylor of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center said of Zetia.
人们可能服用它们的唯一的场合就是在临床试验中。
The companies say that ezetimibe, the generic name for Zetia, showed no cancer risk in animal trials and argue that the cancer finding is probably a result of chance.
两家公司称,ezetimibe(依替米贝,是Zetia的通用名)在动物实验中没有表现出致癌的危险,发现致癌的那个结论可能是偶然的。
All the unpublished studies covered periods at least one year in length and were intended to show whether long-term use of Zetia might pose dangers that short-term use did not.
所有这些未经公布的试验的周期最短的也有一年,可以说明那些短期试验中发现不了但是长期使用却可能出现的危险。
“I don’t think the answer on Zetia is in, ” said Dr. Robert J. Temple, director for the office of medical policy at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, which is part of the F.D.A.
“我认为关于Zetia 还没有答案。”RobertJ.Temple博士说,他是“药品评价和研究中心”的医药政策办公室主任,该中心隶属FDA。
“I don’t think the answer on Zetia is in, ” said Dr. Robert J. Temple, director for the office of medical policy at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, which is part of the F.D.A.
“我认为关于Zetia 还没有答案。”RobertJ.Temple博士说,他是“药品评价和研究中心”的医药政策办公室主任,该中心隶属FDA。
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