DEFINITION

The decisions on a diet or the need or not of taking medication they correspond to his doctor. Also, his doctor is going to monitor, by means of periodic analyses, his lípidos levels in blood once it begins the treatment, to judge the efficacy or ineffectiveness of the same one.

RESINS (Colestiramina-Resincolesteramina (3 ó 4 envelopes a day), Colestipol - Colestid (1 ó 2 a day)-.

They join the biliary acids in the digestive pipe, forcing to the liver to make more biliary acids. Since some of the same mechanisms are used to make cholesterol, cholesterol takes place automatically less. The resins take every day for months or years so that they have a favorable effect in the arteriosclerosis. They are expensive and they can cause constipation.

VITAMINS: Nicotinic acid - Perycit (1 to 6 comp. a day).

It is a vitamin of the complex B; when it takes in much major quantities of the necessary ones as a vitamin, it turns into a medicine. It has long-term favorable effects on the entire cholesterol and the HDL and the triglicéridos. It is cheap. It can be diabetógeno (the tendency increases to azcar increases in blood) and to cause changes in the tests of hepatic function. Also it can produce rubefacción facial (red face), which gets ready taking an aspirin 20 ó 30 minutes earlier.

FIBRATOS: Gemfibrozilo-Lopid (1 caps. half an hour before meals) and similar-Eulitop (2 ó 3 comp. a day), Liparison-.

They have long-term favorable effects on the entire cholesterol and the HDL and the triglicéridos. In general, they are expensive. They can have digestive adverse effects.

PROBUCOL - Bifenabid (1 with breakfast and dinner).

It diminishes the entire cholesterol, but also it diminishes the cholesterol HDL or of high thickness (of protective effect on the arteries), what does not turn out to be desirable.

LOVASTATINA. - Mevacor (from 1 to 4 comp. a day with the dinner)

Very new, a little prompt for global evaluation. Record straight interfering with the manufacture of the cholesterol, and he can promote also the reabsorption of the deposited cholesterol, what would make revertir the arteriosclerosis possible. It gives problems of digestive intolerance and alterations of the hepatic function therefore it has to of his function is controlled by means of the analysis of the transaminasas

LEVELS OF LÍPIDOS AND MEDICINES FOR THE TENSION

Some medicines for the tension have adverse effects on the lípidos in blood.

Tiazidas.

They increase entire cholesterol and triglicéridos. They can diminish the cholesterol HDL (the protector).

Beta - bloqueantes.

Even without valuable changes in the entire cholesterol, they can increase the cholesterol LDL (of low thickness or dangerous) and triglicéridos in addition to there diminish the cholesterol HDL (the protector), all this since undesirably.

Calcioantagonistas and alpha - bloqueantes.

TO SEE ALSO

• Diets for Hiperlipemias
• Evaluation of Hiperlipemias
• Medicines Hipolipemiantes Genéricos
• Medicines Hipolipemiantes Comerciales
• Medicines Hipolipemiantes and HTA

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