Cardiologists have done the same thing to vascular surgeons like Kenagy and their once-godlike colleagues, cardiothoracic surgeons.
Cardiologists agree that most of those people should be getting statins, potentially at high doses instead.
Cardiologists say that the number of malfunctions is small compared with the number of lives saved.
The study, called Prove-It, should spur many cardiologists to put many more people on cholesterol-lowering medicines.
The interventional cardiologists who perform these procedures are often eager to adopt new technologies.
Cardiologists on Novartis' study say Prexige does not appear to have any perceivable heart side effects.
Given the potential costs involved, some cardiologists at the meeting predicted an intense debate.
"I've had GE reps apologize to me for selling to cardiologists and orthopedists, " says radiologist Gruen.
For a whole variety of reasons most cardiologists are not really comfortable diving into social media.
Cardiologists say the result is likely to mean that the use of niacin will plummet.
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So do cardiologists, who will be as focused on the heart as rheumatologists are on the joints.
He said concerns were raised by cardiologists and the analysis of data which indicated high mortality rates.
The idea that some drugs may improve laboratory values without helping patients is now popular among cardiologists.
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Also, future studies would do well to include more cooperation between cardiologists and dental researchers, Offenbacher said.
As previously reported on CardioBrief, Moses is among the highest paid interventional cardiologists in the country.
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In March, a panel of cardiologists said to use the drug, but only after exhausting more proven options.
The huge growth in sales of broccoli should put a spring in the step of the nation's cardiologists.
The result of this unreasonable and unfair data collection process has hit cardiologists in private practice particularly hard.
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But from the design to the technology it uses, ENHANCE has long been riddled with problems, cardiologists say.
But cardiologists haven't given up on old-fashioned heparin, which is often used in combination with other anti-clotting drugs.
"I'm convinced this drug is going to keep a generation of cardiologists busy for a decade, " Fleming says.
Cardiologists and statisticians are arguing about whether the cholesterol drug Vytorin might increase the rate of cancer deaths.
But for years, cardiologists questioned the study, wondering if it could ever prove the drug worked as marketed.
The theory was persuasive to both cardiologists and neurologists until clinical trials from companies like NMT proved negative.
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Many cardiologists who defend Vytorin and Zetia rest their arguments on Peto's brilliance.
Most cardiologists say far more patients should get on statins, which are among the most cost-effective treatments in medicine.
Many cardiologists say noninvasive ways of scanning arteries would be far more useful.
Still, the final outcome of the trial is likely to be seen as mixed, at best, by many cardiologists.
But a study released in January led prominent cardiologists to question Zetia's efficacy at preventing heart attacks and strokes.
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