Intensive statin therapy, used alone or in combination with ezetimibe, improves homocysteine level and lipid peroxidation to a similar degree in patients with coronary artery diseases.

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that intensive lipid-lowering therapy has a beneficial effect on certain parameters of the blood of CAD patients. PMID: 26922537 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Pharmacological Reports - February 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Pytel E, Jackowska P, Chwatko G, Olszewska-Banaszczyk M, Koter-Michalak M, Kubalczyk P, Broncel M Tags: Pharmacol Rep Source Type: research