Sentences with phrase «comparing cholesterol drugs»

Research on secondhand smoke conducted by researchers with industry ties is 88 times more likely to find no harm; industry - funded studies comparing cholesterol drugs are 20 times more likely to favor the sponsor's drug.

Not exact matches

It was also the first drug to prove that lowering cholesterol could prevent recurrent heart attacks compared to a placebo in a randomized clinical outcomes trial.

In March 2008, a 15,000 - person study comparing Crestor (rosuvastatin) against placebo in two groups of outwardly healthy people with low levels of LDL cholesterol and high levels of CRP was stopped early — a «stunning» outcome, the lead researcher said at the time — because the reduction in cardiac events was so marked among the participants taking the drug that to continue the trial and deprive the placebo group of the drugs benefits would have been unethical.

In fact, when the cholesterol - lowering ability of steamed Brussels sprouts was compared with the cholesterol - lowering ability of the prescription drug cholestyramine (a medication that is taken for the purpose of lowering cholesterol), Brussels sprouts bound 27 % as many bile acids (on a total dietary fiber basis).

The ability of pear fibers (and other fruit fibers) to bind bile acids has actually been compared to the cholesterol - lowering drug cholestyramine, with pears showing about 5 % of the ability of the drug to accomplish this result.

Their statistical analysis of the results implied a 24 % reduction in the rate of coronary heart disease in the group taking the drug compared with the placebo group; however, nonheart disease deaths in the drug group increased — deaths from cancer, stroke, violence and suicide.7 Even the conclusion that lowering cholesterol reduces heart disease is suspect.

One study that compared the drug Lipitor and fish oil found that fish oil was more effective than the statin drug Lipitor in positively affecting the good cholesterol (HDL), cholesterol in obese and insulin - hesitant men.

Research published in November 2009 showed that patients taking the cholesterol drug Zetia were more likely to suffer serious and possibly life - threatening side effects compared with patients who were prescribed another drug to lower cholesterol.