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Injectable Drug For High Cholesterol. Up to 90 of people. They work by blocking a substance your body needs to make cholesterol. By Ed SusmanMedPage Today. Drugs That May Help.
Drugs That May Help. The drugs alirocumab Praluent and evolocumab Repatha belong to a new category of medications known as PCSK9 inhibitors. Already millions of people take daily statin pills to cut their cholesterol. But later this year a ground-breaking large-scale clinical trial will offer NHS patients a new form of medicine. Statins are drugs that can lower your cholesterol. Recently approved Praluent alirocumab and Repatha evolocumab the first cholesterol-lowering injection treatments in the new class of.
Are you a candidate for a new type of cholesterol drug.
They work by blocking a substance your body needs to make cholesterol. PRALUENT is an injectable prescription medicine used. Initial findings from the ORION trial reported last year showed that the drug called Inclisiran reduced LDL cholesterol levels by almost half on average and that the treatment was safe for patients and caused no additional side. Statins are the drug of choice when it comes to lowering the amount of cholesterol that circulates in the blood. Up to 90 of people. In adults with cardiovascular disease to reduce the risk of heart attack stroke and certain types of chest pain.