Toxicity of antilipidemic agents: Facts and fictions

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 403-410

  Xydakis, Antonios M ^a   Jones, Peter H ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ASTEMIZOLE; ATORVASTATIN; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BILE ACID; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CERIVASTATIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; EZETIMIBE; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLUINDOSTATIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOVASTATIN PLUS NICOTINIC ACID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MACROLIDE; MEVINOLIN; NICOTINIC ACID; PRAVASTATIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; RESIN; ROSUVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; MYOGLOBINURIA; MYOSITIS; PRURITUS; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348169544     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-003-0012-3     Document Type: Review

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