http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174 Do cholesterol lowering drugs do any good? Thats a good question considering the debilitating side effects everyone here is complaining about. Advertisements in the USA claim "30% reduction" in heart attack and strokes, but does that mean that everyone tha Mon, 04 May 2009 10:35:44 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19480 What about other statins? Lets take a look at Crestor in the JUPITER trial. Crestor advertises a risk reduction in heart attack and stroke of 47%. Thats the relative risk reduction. But what about the absolute risk reduction? In the table 1 endpoints of t http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19480 Mon, 04 May 2009 19:52:21 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19504 Bobby what is the difference between relative and absolute reduction please? http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19504 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:02:12 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19507 Neil, Relative Risk Reduction compares the placebo group to the statin group, without taking into account how many people had to take the drug to get the results. In other words if you reduce cardiac events from 2% down to 1%, thats a 50% relative reduc http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19507 Mon, 04 May 2009 23:17:23 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19510 bobby . . . . . great info for everyone . . .men/women . . .young or older. Since I am a victim of Lipitor . . . my mission is to ban statins and of course, tell everyone how the drs. and the drug co's have a HUGE racket about the anti-cholesterol drugs. http://www.medications.com/effect/view/41174?item=19510