ILLUMINATE sheds more light.

نویسنده

  • Stephen D Wiviott
چکیده

If one could design a metabolic intervention to prevent incident or recurrent cardiovascular events, it might look a lot like torcetrapib. Torcetrapib is the first cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor extensively studied in humans. Torcetrapib, in addition to statin therapy, raised high-density lipoprotein (HDL) by 70%, lowered low-density lipoprotein by 25%, and lowered triglycerides by 10%.1 This is an impressive profile for a pharmaceutical agent. What if someone told you that this therapy also improves glycemic control?

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Circulation

دوره 124 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011