منابع مشابه
[Up to date lipid lowering treatment].
Considerable evidence suggests that "the lower the better" is a reasonable approach for reducing cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL cholesterol levels. Despite the reduction in cardiovascular events and mortality achieved by statin therapy, significant residual risk remains, especially in severe hereditary hypercholesterolemia, such as familial hypercholesterolemia. Some new strategies to achi...
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BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that the benefit of lipid-lowering treatment for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) extends to individuals with average cholesterol levels, to women and to the elderly. However, the proportion of the general population for which treatment is cost-effective has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS Using data provided by ...
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Lipid lowering treatment is of benefit in the prevention of coronary heart diseases (CHD) and other vascular events. So far many studies have been carried out to prove the safety, efficacy and beneficial effects of lipid-lowering treatment in various countries. These studies can be categorized into two groups: (1) studies done to prove the effectiveness of lipid lowering treatment in the primar...
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Despite the widespread prescription of highly effective lipid-lowering medications, such as the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), a large portion of the population has lipid levels higher than the recommended goals. Treatment failures have been attributed to a variety of causes but the most important is likely to be poor adherence to therapy in the form of irregular or interrupted intake ...
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In general, textbooks in medicine that try to cover all areas of a specialty are either huge volume editions, which therefore serve as a reference whenever there is enough time for a thorough search, or they present as pocket books that help to quickly decide when peer assistance is not readily available. Although Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment with its 945 pages certainly is somew...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0021-5384,1883-2083
DOI: 10.2169/naika.106.208