*****From YMB
As a cardiologist with 51 years practice experience (retired in 2018) I have never experienced a drug like VASCEPA with such profound coronary plaques reversals. What matter is TOTAL PLAQUES VOLUME ( TPV), 42% plaques reversals halfway through the 18 months Evaporate Study is historic in the annals of Cardiovascular pharmacology! This meant that per cutaneous coronaries interventions (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) could be postponed perhaps indefinitely and cheaper VASCEPA statin must be deployed early. American soldiers in their late teens and early 20s who died in Vietnam War had already 15%-30% coronary plaques on autopsy, hence we know atherosclerosis starts very early. I am glad Professor Deepak Bhatt calls for early treatment with VASCEPA and not wait for MACE to happen. This would surely bring down healthcare cost drastically and delay Medicare running out of money in this decade. America wake up! President Trump wake up! VASCEPA is a cheap solution to hold down the cost of America’s skyrocketing healthcare cost, the largest in the world with no end in sight. Now we have a solution by endorsing PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY!
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I read over the CC from yesterday. The DR running the trial admitted he made a mistake. Instead of the primary outcome being total plaque reduction, he made the primary outcome something called low attenuation plaque (P = 0.469). He said that if he had chosen total plaque reduction (P = 0.0004) the EVAP Study would be finished 9 Months early! *
And wed prolly be sitting near $30 PS!
Kind of sucks that theres no gray area in these trials. Like look, this is what we were going after, but we found something even better! And this is the whole reason the REDUCE-IT had to be conducted, because the ANCHOR/MARINE (cant remember which off top) Trial was used to predict outcome A, and they found out a bunch of other benefits V had.
Also:
I posted last year, that some Doctors were saying how they felt that everyone person under the age of XX should be taking Vascepa (due to it preventative measures). I used XX cause different Docs used different ages, some said 40, others said 35, etc, etc.
If you go back and read the post at the top when the poster is talking about young soldiers returning from 'Nam having plaque build up in their early 20's letting us know that plaque build starts at a very young age.
Now, I pointed that out to say during the ADCOM, one of the panel members stated that they were concerned that V would become "cardio candy" and Docs would just start prescribing it to every patient that walked thru that door.
^^^shyt, U goddamn right we want V to become cardio candy!
