Workers in their30s and oldertypically "haveenoughlifeexperience that you learnto bite the tongue and to notoverreact," saysexecutivesearchconsultantCharleyPolachi.
Still, James Underberg, a cardiologist at the New York University Medical School, warned that "doctors have to be very careful nottooverreact" to this kind of statistical data until statisticians have combed the data.
Douglas Weaver, chief of cardiology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and president-elect of the ACC, says that the new statement came partly as a response to full-page advertisements from Merck and Schering defending Zetia and Vytorin and telling patients nottooverreactto the ENHANCE study's findings.