A new type of cholesterol-fighting drug led to “significantly lower” levels of LDL — the harmful type of cholesterol — during a year-long trial, researchers report.
The new drug — once converted into its active form in the liver — can’t leave the liver cells, so it can’t enter muscles, making muscle-related side effects less likely, Ray said.
Two-thirds of the patients were assigned to receive bempedoic acid and the rest swallowed a placebo. All continued the highest intensity statin regimen they could tolerate. Jack Manley, 71, of Pearland, Texas, has been taking Lipitor for years for his high cholesterol, but he experienced severe leg cramps as a side effect from the statin.
“Hopefully, it'll be an affordable medicine that will keep my cholesterol in the range that it needs to be,” Manley said.
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