Cholesterol Drug

Extract from www.mercola.com

BusinessWeek actually did an excellent story on this very topic earlier this
year,19 and they found the REAL numbers right on Pfizer’s own newspaper ad for
Lipitor.

Upon first glance, the ad boasts that Lipitor reduces heart attacks by 36 percent.
But there is an asterisk. And when you follow the asterisk, you find the following
in much smaller type:

"That means in a large clinical study, 3% of patients taking a sugar pill or
placebo had a heart attack compared to 2% of patients taking Lipitor."
What this means is that for every 100 people who took the drug over 3.3 years,
three people on placebos, and two people on Lipitor, had heart attacks. That
means that taking Lipitor resulted in just one fewer heart attack per 100 people.

My previous post on this issue


Ask the pharmacist

1) 100 people took lipitor. Assume they r taking lipitor 20mg, cost about RM 180/box of 30s.
3.3 years means 39.6 months
Total cost for 1 person = 39.6 months x 180= RM 7128
Total cost for 100 people= RM 712,800

Is it justify to treat 100 people for 3.3 years which will cost RM 712,800 to prevent 1 heart attack case?
U think your life worth RM 712k for 3.3 years? How about years after the 3.3?

2) I wonder how much my life worth...