Sentences with phrase «drug cholestyramine»

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.

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).

Not exact matches

Anti-diarrheal medications traditional medicine prescribes: OTC drugs like loperamide or bile acid binders like cholestyramine or colesevelam.

Bile acid sequestrant drugs that are used for high cholesterol (cholestyramine, colestipol, colesevelam) may reduce the liver's reabsorption of bile from the gut and may reduce the absorption of thyroid medication

They then conducted what went down in history as the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, successfully lowering the risk of heart disease using cholestyramine, a drug that increases the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids.

What about the very old statin drugs like Cholestyramine or even say activated charcoal which lowers LDL about 15 %.

(ref) Both colestipol and cholestyramine can also interfere with the absorption of a number of drugs, requiring a drug dose increase.