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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

Discovering discrepancies in a major published trial from the pharma-academic complex would be a boost to those seeking to force trial data to be public, and that is exactly what a group of investigators attempted to do with a major cholesterol lowering trial published in 2017. Cholesterol lowering is big business. billion dollars.

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Post Pandemic, US Cardiovascular Death Rate Continues Upward Trajectory

DAIC

The continuing trend reverses improvements achieved in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce mortalities from heart disease and stroke , the leading causes of death in the United States. This was unfortunately the case with heart disease and stroke, which had been improving before the pandemic. from 2010 to 2019.

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