22 Quotes by Steven Nissen

We've been misled many times by observational studies like this,

We wanted to push the paradigm as far as you can go.

We could still be wrong. That's what has to happen for this drug to move forward.

There's only one way -- through good science. We know the burden is upon us to do this right.

Ten of 1,000 patients would die, have a heart attack or a stroke. Those are serious irrevocable events.

This may be the beginning of a real revolution in the treatment of heart disease. We're not merely slowing down the inexorable progression but truly reversing the disease. It's very exciting.

I treated this as a public health emergency, ... A drug that had an 8-to-1 vote in favor of approval and that could any day be approved by the FDA to be used by any of 18 million Americans with type 2 diabetes was, by my analysis, doubling of risk of serious irrevocable cardiovascular events like death, heart attacks and stroke. I dropped everything.

I want to cause people's hands to tremble a little bit before they write that (prescription). The only way I know how to do that is to put it in a black box.

It's really the next generation. It ought to be a magic bullet.