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| | This drug is not recommended for women who are nursing. | | | Consult your doctor if you have any of the following problems: liver, kidney, or muscle disease, or a medical history involving organ transplant or recent surgery. | | | The drug should be used with caution in patients who consume substantial quantities of alcohol and/or have a past history of liver disease. |
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| | In FATS, the levels of LDL-C and HDL-C changed only slightly in the conventional therapy group (-7% and +6%, respectively) but more substantially among patients treated with niacin + colestipol (-32% and +41%) or with lovastatin + colestipol (-45% and +16%). | | | Lipids Online Slides: niacin, combination therapy, lovastatin, statins | | | The Familial Atherosclerosis Treatment Study (FATS) assessed lovastatin plus colestipol, niacin plus colestipol, and conventional therapy in 146 men aged < 62 years with elevated apolipoprotein B levels, arteriographic evidence of coronary atherosclerosis, and a family history of coronary artery disease (CAD). |
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| | For such patients, particularly those at high risk, combination therapy for dyslipidaemia showed promise as an effective treatment, the researchers point out. | | | Lovastatin monotherapy was found to be less effective in reducing lipoprotein (a) levels than the three niacin-containing treatments. | | | Niacin Extended-Release/ Lovastatin Combination Effective in Patients with Multiple Lipid Disorders |
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| | A combination of ezetimibe plus lovastatin provides greater improvement to the lipid profile of patients with hypercholesterolemia than does lovastatin alone. | | | The investigators, from Health Trends Research in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, conducted a multi-centre, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study including 548 patients with hypercholesterolemia. | | | Overall, ezetimibe plus lovastatin co administration resulted in mean LDL cholesterol decreases of 33 to 45%, median triglyceride decreases of 19 to 27% and mean HDL cholesterol increases of eight to nine%. |
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