Showing posts with label drugs heart disease LDL statins fenofibrate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs heart disease LDL statins fenofibrate. Show all posts
Yet Another Drug Study Shows Lowering LDL Does Not Affect Clogging of Arteries
The proposition that lowering LDL with drugs will protect you against developing clogged arteries just took another body blow.We already saw that lowering LDL with Zetia and Vytorin did not lead to any improvement in the thickening in artery walls, and may, in fact, have actually worsened it in the case of Vytorin.Now a 5 year study of fenofibrate, another drug that lowers LDL dramatically, has