To: DoorGunner; Dont Mention the War
Actually folks still suffered bleeding ulcers with Cox-2 inhibitors. Their selling point was that they reduced the incidence of major GI bleeds from about 25% in folks still taking older NSAIDs to about 20%, IIRC. That's still a lot of emergency transfusions, emergency procedures and traditional open surgery avoided.
34 posted on
11/18/2004 10:06:50 PM PST by
neverdem
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To: neverdem
Actually folks still suffered bleeding ulcers with Cox-2 inhibitors. Their selling point was that they reduced the incidence of major GI bleeds from about 25% in folks still taking older NSAIDs to about 20%, IIRC. That's still a lot of emergency transfusions, emergency procedures and traditional open surgery avoided. No kidding! I was on Vioxx and got a bleeding ulcer. Four units of blood later, I am still alive, but I'll never take anything like that ever again.
43 posted on
11/19/2004 6:15:13 AM PST by
TopDog2
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