While fibrates are proven to lower triglyceride levels, which can serve as a biomarker for cardiovascular disease risk, several major clinical studies from the past 20 years have failed to show a benefit of fenofibrates over and above statins in further reducing heart-related events.
Patients want to do the right things to better themselves, but they often have poor understanding of the benefits of maintenance drugs.
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Statins are a widely prescribed drug to reduce cholesterol, but their efficacy has come under fire as of late. UCSF researchers taking a precision medicine approach to statin use, studying their pharmacogenomics.
Even though managing cholesterol can be a very important task, one when doctors likely step in by prescribing statins like Lipitor, there are side effect risks (like with any drug). The trouble is determining how likely those side effects are, and proactive patients don’t always know how to assess that without some serious direction. Some […]