Cholesterol drugs

Two Cholesterol Drugs Work Better Together Than Apart

• Alice Park @aliceparkny
 

Nov. 15, 2016

PCSK9 inhibitors—which received much fanfare recently for lowering cholesterol to unprecedented levels —doctors wanted to know how they would work if taken along with statins, the gold standard for treating high LDL cholesterol. Do the drugs, which both work on cholesterol receptors in the liver but in slightly different ways, combine forces to lower LDL even further than either alone? Or do they negate each other’s effects, only producing as much reduction as either one alone?/.../