Dr Heiner Berthold and colleagues tested commercial garlic oil preparations and found no evidence of lowered cholesterol levels.
Adding Zetia to Zocor, he said, might lower cholesterol levels without reducing heart attacks and strokes.
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Sixty-nine people got Zetia on top of more proven cholesterol drugs and 154 didn't.
The drug's future could be complicated because it also lowers good cholesterol and raises bad cholesterol.
Veltri was a key player in a study of the cholesterol drug Vytorin called ENHANCE.
Better yet, it cut LDL, the bad cholesterol, by 18% more than Lipitor alone--a substantial decrease.
This turns off a whole bunch of processes in the liver, including those that make cholesterol.
At the NIH Gregg had studied patients with another rare disease that made their cholesterol superlow.
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The medicine worked incredibly well, lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol, by 70%.
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Torcetrapib aims to raise good cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein, by blocking the cholesterol ester transfer protein.
Vytorin combines Zocor with a newer drug called Zetia that adds additional cholesterol-lowering oomph.
The Vytorin combo is better at lowering cholesterol than either Zetia or Zocor alone.
Stateside, compared with the Focus, the Chevy Cruze looks like a lump of arterial cholesterol.
The best hope for that will come from combining Zetia with Merck's cholesterol pill Zocor.
Esperion's pipeline was an obvious threat to Pfizer's most important experimental drug, which raises good cholesterol.
It could double the size of the cholesterol drug market to 70 million people.
In answer to your question, Ezetimibe (trade name Zetia) is a cholesterol absorption inhibitor.
Maybe the drugs could be approved for those whose cholesterol is still high on existing drugs.
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However, Vascepa has a key advantage over Lovaza, which can raise LDL, or so-called bad cholesterol.
Nexium, Seroquel (for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), and Crestor (for high cholesterol) have all been successful.
Zetia can be added to a low dose of a statin to lower cholesterol even more.
Panelists wondered about the clinical effect of lowering LDL cholesterol from 400 to 300.
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High-density lipoprotein, better known as HDL or "good cholesterol, " has become a medical mainstay.
AstraZeneca used both techniques to tout its cholesterol drug Crestor as a potent artery unclogger.
The companies co-market two cholesterol drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, that are both expected to be blockbusters.
Those fed a normal diet continued to get worse, while those fed a cholesterol-enriched diet stabilised.
It is thought the cholesterol frees up a "traffic jam" inside cells in the brain.
My cholesterol will be lower in a few days and I can still eat everything.
Last November Pfizer announced the failure of torcetrapib, a drug to boost good cholesterol (HDL).
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