Sentences with phrase «cholesterol drugs work»

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But the big picture is alarming: Patients» online reviews of three over-the-counter drugs — two for lowering cholesterol and one for losing weight — greatly exaggerate how well these substances actually work for most people, says psychologist Mícheál de Barra of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

For instance, pharmaceutical companies will most likely continue to generate more lucrative cures for hypertension and high cholesterol, even though existing drugs work well, and ignore other disorders that lack effective drugs.

Their work laid the groundwork for drugs called statins that block cholesterol synthesis, increase LDL receptors, lower blood cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.

Among the newly funded investigations are: the development of animal models of diabetic eye disease to learn how fenofibrate, a drug clinically - approved to treat cholesterol, protects the eye from diabetes - related damage; the development of a specialized camera to capture how the retina's rods and cones (responsible for turning light energy into shapes and colors) work in health and how they fail in retinal diseases; and the exploration of mechanisms by which intestinal tract bacteria impact the health of the eye.

At the basic level, this work opened the field of receptor - mediated endocytosis, and at the clinical level it helped lay the conceptual groundwork for development of drugs called statins that lower blood LDL - cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.

Kuusisto and Page have received approval to use de-identified electronic health records from the National VA Hospital, with approximately 10 million records, to continue the drug repurposing work, examining several drug effects such as lowering of cholesterol levels or blood pressure.

«My weight hit 274 pounds on my 5» 7» frame, my joints were aching from the statin drugs used to lower my cholesterol, I was winded walking up stairs, and I was taking blood pressure medicine that wasn't working all that well.

Vytorin lowers LDL cholesterol by blocking its absorption in the intestines, while other drugs work in different ways.

Once you start taking a statin or another cholesterol - lowering drug, you must continue taking them forever, or switch drugs if one isn't working or is causing side effects.

Despite the weak predictive value of Total and LDL cholesterol, people with elevated numbers are often instructed to lower cholesterol by any means necessary... including a low - fat diet (which doesn't work) and statin drugs.

Statin drugs work very well at reducing cholesterol measurements in the blood.

Statin drugs work by preventing the formation of cholesterol, and reducing LDL cholesterol, which is considered the «bad» cholesterol.

Yet in women, heart disease is strongly associated with artery spasm and clotting issues, and thus far, none of the national studies using cholesterol medications for women have ever shown that these drugs work.

Drugs like prednisone work by stimulating cells throughout the body to give up cholesterol and other nutrients, and then carrying them to the site of injury.

People should stop drinking, lose weight, take measures to control diabetes, and work to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels, while being aware that many drugs such as cholesterol - lowering drugs can exert toxic effects on the liver cells.

Of course, some of this work was paid for by drug companies hoping to capitalize on Alzheimer's with cholesterol - lowering statin drugs.

Since 2015 there have been a few pharmaceutical companies working on a new cholesterol - lowering drug type as a replacement for the older class of statin drugs, such as Lipitor.

The lab he works with has been credited with discovering a gene responsible for low LDL blood levels, and was responsible for the latest general of cholesterol lowering drugs.