These drugs were brought to market. They were prescribed very widely because heart attacks are a very common thing, and it took so long for us to find out that these drugs also caused an increased rate of death that before we detected that safety signal, over 100,000 people died unnecessarily in America from the prescription of anti-arrhythmic drugs.
Disse lægemidler kom på markedet. De blev udskrevet bredt fordi hjerteanfald er en meget almindelig ting, og det tog lang tid at finde ud af at disse midler også forøgede dødsraten og før vi opdagede det, døde over 100,000 folk unødvendigt i Amerika på grund af udskrivning af medicin mod hjerteflimmer.