Statins (Cardiovascular agents)
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found: Work cat.: Ebrahim, S. What role for statins?, 1999:p. iii (Statins are a new class of drugs that lower blood cholesterol)
found: Heart Information Network WWW Site, 12 Jan. 2000:Statins page (The most popular class of medications for cholesterol are known as "Statins")
found: Medline search, 13 Jan. 2000(titles: 452 hits; term used as proposed)
found: Hurst's the heart, 1998:p. 1572 (Four classes of lipid-lowering drugs are currently available in the U.S. for treatment of hyperlipidemia: HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins); bile-acid sequestrants (resins); nicotinic acid (niacin); and fibric-acid derivative (fibrates). Statins achieve the greatest LDL lowering of available hypolipemic drugs. Currently available statins are fluvastatin (Lescol); lovastatin (Mevacor); pravastatin (Pravachol); simvastatin (Zocor); and atorvastatin (Lipitor). The primary action of these drugs is to inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of cholesterol)
found: MESH(Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors)
found: Washington Post Health section, June 26, 2001:p. 12 (statin drugs)
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2001-06-26: new
2002-05-20: revised
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