 Not everyone responds to the same degree to the effects of a heart-healthy diet. Despite their benefits, these lifestyle measures don’t always lower LDL (”bad”) cholesterol sufficiently to significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack. When that is the case, cholesterol medicine is often recommended as well. Many different cholesterol medicines have been developed in recent years. How cholesterol medicines works? Some reduce the amount of cholesterol the liver makes while others reduce the amount of dietary cholesterol that is absorbed from food.
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 When it comes to cholesterol, LDL might as well stand for “Lower, Darn it, Lower” - at least for some of us. The results of several recent clinical trials have shown that patients who are at high risk for heart attack and death from cardiovascular disease can substantially lower their risk by reducing levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol well below previously recommended targets. In response to these findings, a National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) panel issued a statement in July, 2005 calling for more aggressive lowering of LDL cholesterol in people at high risk. According to the revised guidelines, a reasonable therapeutic option for people at “very high” risk (such as those who have experienced a heart attack) is to push LDL cholesterol levels below 70 mg/dL -30 points below the prior target level of 100 mg/dL for this group. Several types of cholesterol medicine are used to treat high cholesterol levels.
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Read more... [Lower Cholesterol Medicine Therapy]
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