Regarding the Tuesday editorial on the study of the benefits of the heart drug Crestor:
Overall, the study found 83 heart attacks, strokes and deaths from cardiac causes among the 8,901 patients given Crestor (0.9 percent) comared with 157 in the equal number getting a placebo (1.8 percent). That means 120 people would need to be treated for two years at $3.45 a day per person to prevent just one cardiac event.
The total cost for the 120 people to prevent the one heart attack? It's $300,000.
Now, taking the medicine still did not eliminate the risk; 83 people (who would be paying $3.45 per day each day for two years, roughly $2,500 per person) still had a heart attack.
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