Lipid-lowering Medicine (Noun)
Meaning
A medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The doctor prescribed him a lipid-lowering medicine to reduce his high cholesterol levels.
- Regular exercise and a healthy diet can be used in conjunction with lipid-lowering medicine to manage high cholesterol.
- Atorvastatin is a commonly prescribed lipid-lowering medicine that has been shown to effectively reduce the risk of heart disease.
- The patient had to take lipid-lowering medicine every day to control her high levels of LDL cholesterol.
- The study found that a combination of statin and ezetimibe lipid-lowering medicine was more effective at lowering cholesterol levels than either medication alone.