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PFIZER INC - Research Update.

PR Newswire UK Disclose, September, 2006

 
  Lipitor More Effective Than Simvastatin in Cutting Risk of Additional Heart 
     Attacks in Patients Who Had a Recent Heart Attack, New Data Suggests 
 
    * Heart Disease Patients who Were at a Very High Risk for Having a Second 
      Heart Attack and Took Lipitor 80mg Had a 46 Percent Reduction in the 
      Risk of Experiencing Additional Heart Attacks Compared With Patients 
      Taking Simvastatin 
 
    * Investigator: 'These data suggest the benefit of intensive treatment 
      with Lipitor 80mg in very high-risk heart attack patients.' 
 
    NEW YORK, Sept. 6 -- Patients who had a recent heart 
attack and took Pfizer's Lipitor(R) (atorvastatin calcium) 80mg dose 
experienced significantly fewer heart attacks than patients taking simvastatin 
20-40mg dose,...

            
        
    
    	    
                
                
	
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