Sentences with phrase «other cholesterol drugs»

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The other drugs are antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids

Statins and other drugs are already widely used to lower LDL cholesterol, but there are fewer options for lowering triglycerides.

The analysis found that statins were more likely to reduce the risk of death when LDL cholesterol levels were 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) or greater, whether or not they were used with other LDL - lowering drugs.

Dr. Criner cautioned, however, that the finding that the statin drug has no benefit for prevention of COPD exacerbations does not mean that COPD patients should stop taking statins prescribed for cholesterol lowering or other cardiovascular indications.

«The exciting thing about this drug's potential is that it could allow us to consider a strategy of prevention, as we do with other forms of heart disease — like lowering cholesterol or using ACE inhibitors.

The panel chose to focus on the use of statins after a detailed review of other cholesterol - lowering drugs.

He added that there is a role for other cholesterol - lowering drugs, for example, in patients who suffer side effects from statins.

But in no other category, except for medication to lower blood cholesterol, is the difference as stark as with the psychotropic drugs.

All patients also received standard medical therapy throughout the trial, which in a vast majority of cases included treatment with statins or other cholesterol - lowering drugs.

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.

Keeping blood sugar close to normal and taking drugs to hold down blood levels of cholesterol and other fats can help people with diabetes avoid the potentially blinding eye disease retinopathy, researchers report.

Taking that observation one step further, the researchers then asked whether cholesterol - lowering statin drugs, which other reports had shown could dramatically reduce the risk of a heart attack in middle - aged people, benefit the very old (see «Greasing Aging's Downward Slide»).

Similar to a trojan horse, the drug enters the liver with a trick: It uses the pancreatic hormone glucagon as vehicle to shuttle thyroid hormone T3 the live while keeping it away from other organs, thereby improving cholesterol and lipid metabolism while avoiding typical side effects of thyroid hormone.

They're expected to outsell two other blockbusters: the cholesterol drug Lipitor (atorvastatin) and the blood thinner Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate).

Knowing that, the physician could choose from other cholesterol - lowering drugs to treat that particular individual.

To help doctors decide who should take cholesterol - lowering drugs that cost thousands of dollars a year, the focus of discussion could fall on risk models, such as the Framingham score and its successors, or other biomarkers besides various forms of cholesterol.

Using a mouse model, the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish, has now determined that combining the cholesterol - lowering drug fenofibrate with glucocorticoids could allow for dramatically lower steroid doses in the treatment of Diamond Blackfan anemia and other erythropoietin - resistant anemias.

Although dietary changes, cholesterol - lowering statins, and hypertension drugs such as beta - blockers are far from a surefire way to prevent Alzheimer's, these and other treatments that promote healthy blood vessels may be a practical way for people to reduce their risk, the researchers say.

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

«Based on currently available data, patients should not stop taking Vytorin or other cholesterol - lowering drugs and should talk to their doctor or other health - care professional if they have any questions about Vytorin, Zetia, or the ENHANCE trial.»

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public,» she said.

Many atherosclerosis patients also take statins to lower their cholesterol and beta - blockers or other drugs to lower their blood pressure.

Statins — a class of drug that includes atorvastatin (Lipitor), simvastatin (Zocor), and others — are among the most effective drugs for lowering cholesterol.

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, C - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

That statins and other cholesterol - lowering drugs have serious side effects and may not prevent heart disease?

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, c - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

Be careful in the intake of fish oils, however, as high doses have been shown to increase * levels of bad cholesterol, and it can also have negative interaction with other medications such as drugs prescribed for high blood pressure.

We found a statistically significant, substantial association between change in low density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk ratios for coronary heart disease events, coronary heart disease deaths, or total deaths, adjusted for other lipid subfractions and drug class.»

The efficacy and necessity of these drugs has long been debated in the natural health world — mainly questioning whether the absolute benefit of the drug justifies the lifetime prescription or whether the approach of «blocking» cholesterol makes sense given that cholesterol is vital for so many other areas of human health — but for those that do decide to take Lipitor, Crestor or other statins, it's important to consider the drug's other effects on the body.

The conventional medical solution for this false cholesterol source of heart disease has been to almost eliminate healthy cholesterol with widespread prescriptions of highly profitable statin drugs, creating conditions conducive to Alzheimer's, other neurological diseases, and physical impairments.

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.

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.

Its deficiency can lead to peripheral nerve damage (especially in people chronic high blood sugar levels and those who are on statins and other cholesterol - lowering drugs), brain and spinal cord problems, neural tube defects in pregnancy, or Multiple Sclerosis lesions.

It is therefore much better and wiser to improve lifestyle and go on plant - based unrefined diet including barley fibre (beta - glucan), oat bran, garlic, onion, ground flax seed, pulses, alfalfa, karela, nettle, niacin, l - arginine, lecithin, etc. and use other natural remedies which are equally or even more effective in lowering blood glucose and bad cholesterol as drugs yet without causing any harm.

Now I day trade and that is stressful for me too: — RRB - I would like to hear from any MD's or other people with knowledge of high cholesterol causes and ways besides statin or other drugs to lower the numbers.

The effort to reduce cholesterol with dangerous statin drugs has made a lot of money, maybe more than any other type of drug on the market.

Low blood levels of this vitamin can also lead to peripheral nerve damage, especially in people with high blood sugar levels and those who are on statins and other cholesterol - lowering drugs.

Unfortunately fish also comes with cholesterol, saturated fat and all sorts of chemicals including mercury, arsenic, drugs, pcb's and other organic chemicals including fire retardants.

Alternatives: If you're among the many millions of older Americans without known coronary disease who are taking these drugs, ask your doctor or other health care provider about treating your slightly elevated cholesterol with a combination of sublingual (under - the - tongue) vitamin B12 (1,000 mcg daily), folic acid (800 mcg daily) and vitamin B6 (200 mg daily).

«Unlike other heart disease risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, we don't have specifically effective drugs to prevent heart failure, so we need to identify and verify effective strategies for prevention and emphasize these to the public.»

Zocor and Crestor are prescription drugs that help reduce the amount of cholesterol and other fatty substances in a person's blood.