Evolocumab: A Review in Hyperlipidemia

American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 67-78

  Keating, Gillian M ^a  

^a SPRINGER   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLOCUMAB; EZETIMIBE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLACEBO; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PCSK9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 9; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LIMB PAIN; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYALGIA; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMA CONCENTRATION-TIME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHINOPHARYNGITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; EZETIMIBE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPOLIPIDEMIC AGENTS; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 9; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 84956616206     PISSN: 11753277     EISSN: 1179187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40256-015-0153-0     Document Type: Article

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