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Monday, March 14, 2005
Cox-2 Inhibitors cause major cardiovascular risk
This class of drugs include Vioxx/ Celebrex/ Bextra. Amazing to me,Dr. Graham, associate director in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety 88,000 to 139,000 had heart attacks and strokes as a result of taking rofecoxib (Vioxx) This is considered to be the "single greatest drug catastrophe in the history of this country or of this world". As many as 56,000 of these cases are believed to result in fatalities. Celebrex and bextra have also been of concern for cardiovascular risk.Interestingly, a study in the July 2003 issue of Spine, found chiropractic spinal adjusting was five times more effective in treating chronic spinal pain than were the cox-2 inhibitors Vioxx / Celebrex / Bextra. The drugs resulted in some adverse reactions. Chiropractic spinal adjusting resulted in no adverse reactions.
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