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98. A New Drug, Sugar Legacy, Statin in the Elderly

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31942-1/fulltext If you are over 70 or 75 and primary prevention then likely no benefit in statins and secondary benefit is very small https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1806802 Get the glucose down! After you max out other risk factors as intensive control doesn't have a legacy effect https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944 vit d doesnt beat placebo for anything- ever. Except for the vit d lab number https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-treatment-hypoactive-sexual-desire-disorder-premenopausal-women Vyleesi (bremelanotide) will make you have more sexual desire on a sexual desire scale but not more sex-

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