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%。

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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。

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“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。

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Adding Zetia to Zocor, he said, might lower cholesterol levels without reducing heart attacks and strokes.

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So adding Zetia to Zocor in that study still should have resulted in thinner arteries.

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Sixty-nine people got Zetia on top of more proven cholesterol drugs and 154 didn't.

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