A lipid for fat disorders

LIPID DISORDERS The review of medicines for treating lipid disorders

Gene therapy for lipid disorders

Lipid disorders are associated with atherosclerotic vascular disease, and therapy is associated with a substantial reduction in cardiovascular events. Current approaches to the treatment of lipid disorders are ineffective in a substantial number of patients. New therapies for refractory hypercholesterolemia, severe hypertriglyceridemia, and low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are...

Lipid Disorders

Multiple epidemiologic studies have demonstrated the relationship between cardiovascular mortality and elevated plasma cholesterol levels. Lipid-lowering therapy, particularly with hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins), has demonstrated survival benefit in both primary prevention (patients without evidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease [ASCVD]) an...

Disorders of Fat Absorption

I have often been asked how I can keep to so narrow a field as steatorrhoea over a period of years, and my answer has always been that there are so many inviting problems in this field; my main difficulty is really one of confining my energies to a few of them. For instance, there is a wide variety of clinical conditions in which steatorrhoea is seen, often present only as part of a syndrome of...

Therapy of lipid disorders.