It can be difficult to draw conclusions based on these reports, because they are random.

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Relatively few of them--about 0.4%--on any treatment had heart attacks, and that makes it difficult to draw conclusions about whether patients on Prexige were at more risk than those on ibuprofen and naproxen, the older pain drugs in the study.

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British Society for Rheumatology president Dr Andrew Bamji said it was a small study so difficult to draw firm conclusions.

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These data are intriguing, but because low vitamin D levels and heart disease are both very common, and because this was not an interventional study, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions, other than more research is probably warranted.

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