Medical Pharmacology Chapter 11:  Drugs Used in Treating Hyperlipidemia

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Primary Hypercholesterolemia

 Secondary Hyperlipoproteinemia

 

Hypertriglyceridemia

Diabetes mellitus

Alcohol ingestion

Severe nephrosis

Estrogens

Uremia

Corticosteroid excess

Hypothyroidism

Glycogen storage disease

Hypopituitarism

Acromegaly

Immunoglobulin lipoprotein complex disorder

Iipodystrophy

 

Hypercholesterolemia

Hypothyroidism

Early nephrosis

Resolving lipemia

Immunoglobulin-lipoprotein complex disorder

Anorexia nervosa

Cholestasis

Hypopituitarism

Corticosteroid excess

*adapted from: Table 35-4:Malloy, M. J, and Kane, J. P., Agents Used in Hyperlipidemia, in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, (Katzung, B. G., ed) Appleton-Lange, 1998, p 567.

Primary Reference: Malloy, M. J, and Kane, J. P., Agents Used in Hyperlipidemia, in Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, (Katzung, B. G., ed) Appleton-Lange, 1998, pp 563-577.

Primary Reference: Ginsberg, H. N and Goldberg, I. J. Disorders of Intermediary Metabolism: Disorders of Lipoprotein Metabolism, In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 14th edition, (Isselbacher, K.J., Braunwald, E., Wilson, J.D., Martin, J.B., Fauci, A.S. and Kasper, D.L., eds) McGraw-Hill, Inc (Health Professions Division), 1998, pp 2138-2149.

 

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