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What really happened to heart patients taking a cholesterol drug?

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Restoring mortality data in the FOURIER cardiovascular outcomes trial of evolocumab in patients with cardiovascular disease: a reanalysis based on regulatory data

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Doctors looked back at death records from a big heart drug study and found some mistakes in how deaths were counted.

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Authors

Erviti J, Wright J, Bassett K, Ben-Eltriki M, Jauca C, Saiz LC, Leache L, Gutiérrez-Valencia M, Perry TL