Clofibrate

Store amantadine give providers magnacort some effects magnesium clofibrate originated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who took their clofibrate sporadically had a five-year mortality of 24.6 percent, significantly higher than those who took it as directed, a piece of data that would seem to confirm the efficacy of clofibrate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Turned out that the five-year mortality of those on clofibrate was 20.0 percent whereas the five-year mortality of those on the placebo was 20.9 percent, or essentially the same. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The study was looking at clofibrate, a pre-statin cholesterol lowering drug and all cause mortality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the data were looked at from the perspective of how many people actually took the drug as prescribed, the researcher discovered that those subjects who took at least 80 percent or more of their clofibrate had a five year mortality of only 15.0 percent, substantially less than the overall five-year mortality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The study was looking at clofibrate, a pre-statin cholesterol lowering drug, and all cause mortality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when the results were tabulated after five years, clofibrate showed no beneficial effect. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The researchers then considered the possibility that clofibrate appeared to fail only because the subjects failed to faithfully take their prescriptions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because one of the drugs, clofibrate, lowered cholesterol levels, the researchers had high hopes that it would ward off heart disease. ❋ Unknown (2009)

” This might have been taken as reason to believe that clofibrate actually did cut heart-disease deaths almost by half, but then the researchers looked at those men who faithfully took their placebos. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A double-blind study compared guggul to the cholesterol-lowering drug clofibrate and found that both had similar cholesterol- and triglyceride-lowering effects, but guggul uniquely had the ability to raise the ratio of HDL (the good cholesterol) compared to LDL (the bad form). ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Drugs: Atromid-S (clofibrate) or Lopid (gemfibrozil). ❋ Elizabeth Ross (1996)

Gemfibrozil, clofibrate, reisins and nicotinic acid are some common types of cholesterol lowering drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)