Controversy over the aggressive new cholesterol guidelines for kids. Can this open the door to a new demographic for Pharma?
Dr. Wes comments: “I can see it now: a young, overweight teenager with a family history of heart disease is placed on a statin drug. She later becomes pregnant.
Oops.”
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Just plain nuts! Of course the Peds group is generally in a manic furor with regard to shallow thinking and excessive proclomations of all sort.
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