ABC News: Doctors Discredit Lipitor's Link to Memory Loss

[adec]

Doctors Discredit Lipitor's Link to Memory Loss
ABC News: February 13th, 2008
Evidence of Side Effect Remains Anecdotal; Doctors Stress the Benefits Outweigh Possible Risks

By LAUREN CAHOON
ABC News Medical Unit
Feb. 13, 2008
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Doctors have largely discredited an anecdotal link between the popular cholesterol drug Lipitor and memory loss.

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*http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartDiseaseCenter/story?id=4281162&page=1

[the hittman]

AMAZING !! --- All these people, my wife and myself included as well as Dr Graveline himself all KNOW LIPITOR CAUSES MEMORY LOSS. Pfizer must be paying off these "TV Dr's"....I went through the frieghtening short-term memory loss, so did my wife...AND THE REALLY AMAZING THING IS----WHEN WE STOPPED THE LIPITOR---THE MEMORY CAME BACK....THAT'S ONE HELLUVA COINCIDENCE !!! LPITOR IS POISON, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.-----There is more accurate medical advice on this board, than you will get a most doctors offices !!

[flacorps]

[quote="adec"]When asked about the possibility of memory loss, Pfizer responded with a statement that claimed less than 2 percent of Lipitor users — which would account for about 360,000 people — reported such a side effect.[/quote]

Umm ... because they didn't remember to report it?

I wonder what would be found if the users were actually [i]tested[/i]?

[quote] The company noted that its research has shown no cause-and-effect link between the statin drug and memory problems. [/quote]

Company spokesman were quoted as saying "Wow! Those tobacco company playbooks for handling the press [i]really[/i] come in handy!"