Efficacy and Safety of Ezetimibe Added on to Atorvastatin (20 mg) Versus Uptitration of Atorvastatin (to 40 mg) in Hypercholesterolemic Patients at Moderately High Risk for Coronary Heart Disease††Conflicts of interest: Dr. Conard served as a consultant and advisor for Merck & Company and Merck/Schering-Plough. Dr. Bays received research grants from Amylin, San Diego, California, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, J&J, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Aegerion, Bridgewater, New Jersey, Abbott, Chicago, Illinois, Arena Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California, GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), London, UK, Hoffmann LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey, Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, MSP, Kenilworth, New Jersey, Metabolex, San Jose, California, Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, New Jersey, Orexigen, San Diego, California, Reliant, Liberty Corner, New Jersey, Sciele, Atlanta, Georgia, Takeda, Osaka, Japan, TAP, Lake Forest, Illinois, and Vivus, Mountain View, California; received speakers' honoraria from Abbott, Daiichi Sankyo, Tokyo, Japan, GlaxoSmithKline, Reliant, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Schering-Plough; received honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, London, UK (Wilmington, Delaware, US Headquarters), Daiichi Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline, Reliant, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Schering-Plough; and served as a consultant and advisor for Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Metabolex, San Jose, California, Reliant, Takeda, AstraZeneca, and Essentialis, Carlsbad, California. Dr. Leiter received grants and speakers' honoraria from and served as a consultant and advisor for AstraZeneca, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Pfizer, New York, New York. Mr. Bird, Mr. Rubino, and Drs. Lowe, Tomassini, and Tershakovec are employees of Merck & Company and may own stock and/or hold stock options in the company.

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Efficacy and Safety of Ezetimibe Added on to Atorvastatin (20 mg) Versus Uptitration of Atorvastatin (to 40 mg) in Hypercholesterolemic Patients at Moderately High Risk for Coronary Heart Disease††Conflicts of interest: Dr. Conard served as a consultant and advisor for Merck & Company and Merck/Schering-Plough. Dr. Bays received research grants from Amylin, San Diego, California, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California, J&J, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Aegerion, Bridgewater, New Jersey, Abbott, Chicago, Illinois, Arena Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California, GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), London, UK, Hoffmann LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey, Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, MSP, Kenilworth, New Jersey, Metabolex, San Jose, California, Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, New Jersey, Orexigen, San Diego, California, Reliant, Liberty Corner, New Jersey, Sciele, Atlanta, Georgia, Takeda, Osaka, Japan, TAP, Lake Forest, Illinois, and Vivus, Mountain View, California; received speakers' honoraria from Abbott, Daiichi Sankyo, Tokyo, Japan, GlaxoSmithKline, Reliant, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Schering-Plough; received honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, London, UK (Wilmington, Delaware, US Headquarters), Daiichi Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline, Reliant, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Schering-Plough; and served as a consultant and advisor for Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Metabolex, San Jose, California, Reliant, Takeda, AstraZeneca, and Essentialis, Carlsbad, California. Dr. Leiter received grants and speakers' honoraria from and served as a consultant and advisor for AstraZeneca, Merck & Company, Merck/Schering-Plough, and Pfizer, New York, New York. Mr. Bird, Mr. Rubino, and Drs. Lowe, Tomassini, and Tershakovec are employees of Merck & Company and may own stock and/or hold stock options in the company.

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Journal

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Volume 102, Issue 11, Pages 1489-1494

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Online

2008-10-24

DOI

10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.09.075