Prescription Medications
When diet and exercise alone are not able to treat high cholesterol levels, your doctor might write you a prescription for cholesterol medication. These drugs function in lowering the amount of fats in your blood by increasing your HDL (the good cholesterol)levels and decreasing your LDL (the bad cholesterol) levels.
Cordaptive: Niacin Without The Side Effects
Cordaptive is a drug that combines nicotinic acid, a form of niacin, with laropiprant, a chemical that reduces the side effects associated with niacin, such as flushing, rash, and hot flashes. Cordaptive appears promising in lowering cholesterol and helps all aspects of your cholesterol profile. Cordaptive lowers LDL, lowers triglycerides, and raises HDL.
Cordaptive is a drug that combines nicotinic acid, a form of niacin, with laropiprant, a chemical that reduces the side effects associated with niacin, such as flushing, rash, and hot flashes. Cordaptive appears promising in lowering cholesterol and helps all aspects of your cholesterol profile. Cordaptive lowers LDL, lowers triglycerides, and raises HDL.
Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib
Pfizer will begin to manufacture a new cholesterol-lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in its Loughbeg, Ireland facility soon. When used in combination with atorvastatin, torcetrapib greatly increases HDL cholesterol levels and has the added benefit of lowering LDL levels.
Pfizer will begin to manufacture a new cholesterol-lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in its Loughbeg, Ireland facility soon. When used in combination with atorvastatin, torcetrapib greatly increases HDL cholesterol levels and has the added benefit of lowering LDL levels.
Should I Ditch My Cholesterol Meds?
Perhaps you have been taking your cholesterol medication for a while and everything is going well. You feel good. Your lipid panel has come back normal. You don't "feel" like you have high cholesterol, so does that mean you can ditch your cholesterol meds? The answer might surprise you.
Perhaps you have been taking your cholesterol medication for a while and everything is going well. You feel good. Your lipid panel has come back normal. You don't "feel" like you have high cholesterol, so does that mean you can ditch your cholesterol meds? The answer might surprise you.