Nexium, Seroquel (for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), and Crestor (for high cholesterol) have all been successful.
They showed how high cholesterol levels could affect the immune system and lead to macular degeneration.
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The drug takes a new tack against high cholesterol, absorbing it in the gut.
High cholesterol is one of the most important risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks.
Obesity could prove similar to another American killer, high cholesterol, which was once treatable primarily by diet.
Imagine a Lipitor-Weight Watchers partnership with a point system designed for patients with heart disease or high cholesterol.
Someone with high cholesterol may benefit from dietary counseling, preferably by a dietitian, along with weight control and exercise.
Enhance focused on a group of 720 patients with a rare condition that made them susceptible to high cholesterol.
For decades doctors and scientists obsessed over one key factor in heart attacks--high cholesterol--and devised drugs to treat it.
That is huge news because drugs containing this B vitamin have been used for decades to treat high cholesterol.
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Patients with high cholesterol had, on average, a fifty-point drop in their levels.
Nothing more was said or done until about four years ago when I was put on drugs for high cholesterol.
It studied a similar group of patients, people who have a genetic disorder that predisposes them to have high cholesterol.
One group was fed a high cholesterol diet alone, and another the same diet together with vitamins C and E.
People were also eating far too much saturated fat, which can lead to high cholesterol levels, and consequently heart disease.
Moreover, some of the negative health effects of a poor diet--such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol--can be handled with drugs.
Despite powerful new drugs, fully 64% of American adults have high cholesterol or other risk factors, up from 58% in 1991.
About 20 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, and they often have high cholesterol levels as well.
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One reason Isis needs money is the company plans to launch a study next year in patients with garden-variety high cholesterol.
Consumers, on the other hand, were bombarded with television commercials reminding them that high cholesterol is a dangerous but treatable problem.
As scientists understand the disease better, they will begin to treat it as any other chronic disease--such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
In addition, a drug currently used to treat high cholesterol levels could be able to deal with the toxin which causes ciguatera.
It shows promise for all forms of high cholesterol, but the prospects are best in a rare disease called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).
High cholesterol levels increase risk of heart attack and other vascular diseases.
Among them were the highly touted cholesterol drug Tredaptive and a combo pill for patients with diabetes and high cholesterol called MK-0431E.
Others are a little more curious: Eggs make the cut despite their high cholesterol content because they are cheap and packed with protein and nutrients.
Diabetes UK says that because of the existence of statins - cholesterol-lowering drugs - it is relatively easy to control high cholesterol.
Unlike other cholesterol medicines, Isis' experimental mipomersen will be targeted at patients whose high cholesterol is caused by a relatively rare genetic disease.
If the 301012 also goes on to treat garden variety high cholesterol, Isis may need to dramatically cut the price of the drug.
As scientists understand the disease better, they will begin to treat it as any other chronic disease such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
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