PECULIARITIES OF CHANGES IN THE RATE OF CHOLESTEROL-SYNTHESIS IN LYMPHOCYTES AND LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN PERIPHERAL-BLOOD LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE AND HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA IN THE COURSE OF COMBINED TREATMENT WITH LOVASTATIN AND OBSIDAN
Ed. Polyakova et al., PECULIARITIES OF CHANGES IN THE RATE OF CHOLESTEROL-SYNTHESIS IN LYMPHOCYTES AND LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN PERIPHERAL-BLOOD LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE AND HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA IN THE COURSE OF COMBINED TREATMENT WITH LOVASTATIN AND OBSIDAN, Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine, 117(3), 1994, pp. 249-252
It is shown that the level of total serum cholesterol dropped and the
rate of cholesterol synthesis in lymphocytes remained unchanged after
12 months of lovastatin treatment (20 mg/day) in patients with coronar
y heart disease. The administration of lovastatin abolished the delete
rious effect of obsidan on the blood lipid spectrum.