...-HDL-C) in patients with persistent hypertriglyceridemia despite statin therapy. Methods: The study was designed to randomly assign 140 patients with fasting triglyceride levels ≥200 but <500 mg/dl on a stable dose of statin therapy to receive either masked icosabutate 600 mg once daily or a control...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. HDL cholesterol Triglycerides Myocardial infarction Hypolipidemic drugs Cardiology 1991:78:236-242 Drugs Affecting HDL Cholesterol1 Gerd Assmann Institut für Klinische Chemie und...

...A. Capurso Nicotinic acid and clofibrate derivatives are the main triglyceride-metabolism-affecting drugs. Nicotinic acid and its derivatives block adipose tissue lipolysis thus reducing the FFA flux of free fatty acids to the liver and the synthesis of very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL). VLDL...

...Jukka-Pekka Ojala; Eero Helve; Matti J. Tikkanen A subanalysis was performed on data acquired from 67 subjects having serum cholesterol levels of 6.2 mmol/l or above (≧ 240 mg/dl) and triglyceride levels of 2.25 to 4.00 mmol/l (199–354 mg/dl) (excluding patients with familial hypercholesterolemia...

..., triglycerides [TG] < 350 mg/dl). Throughout the study the patients observed a lipid-lowering diet (American Heart Association). After a baseline placebo period (4 weeks) the patients were randomly assigned to simvastatin 20 mg q. p. m. or fenofibrate 200 mg b. i. d. If after 6 weeks of treatment the LDL...