Houston, TX - Combination therapy with extended-release (ER) niacin and a statin to improve total lipid profile may achieve greater coronary risk reductions than lowering LDL alone, a new study ...
Objective: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a simvastatin-to-lovastatin therapeutic conversion program. Study Design: Observational database study of a therapeuticconversion in members of ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 93-year-old woman in good health. I take 40 mg of lovastatin once a day for high cholesterol, but my cholesterol levels are always high when tested. My physician is not concerned ...
The major route of excretion of statins is through the bile after hepatic transformation. Persons with liver disease should be given lower doses of statins or treated with other types of ...
We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial comparing lovastatin at a dose of 40 mg once daily with placebo (Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN31565393). Outcome ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 93-year-old woman in good health. I take 40 mg of lovastatin once a day for high cholesterol, but my cholesterol levels are always high when tested. My physician is not concerned ...
Among more than 500,000 patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, researchers found an inverse association between intensity of statin therapy and mortality, with patients who received ...
Statins increase the expression and secretion of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2), which stimulates bone formation. As oral statins undergo first-pass hepatic metabolism, however, standard ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 93-year-old woman in good health. I take 40 mg of lovastatin once a day for high cholesterol, but my cholesterol levels are always high when tested. My physician is not concerned ...
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