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.
Obat ini dipasarkan dan diresepkan dengan sangat luas karena serangan jantung adalah hal biasa, dan perlu waktu sangat lama bagi kita untuk mengetahui bahwa obat ini meningkatkan resiko kematian sehingga sebelum kita mengetahui tanda itu, lebih dari 100.000 orang meninggal di Amerika akibat memakan obat ini.