colestipol

British  

/ kəˈlɛstɪˌpɒl /

noun

1. a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis

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Example Sentences

Blankenhorn placed half of them on a diet containing 22% fat and gave them colestipol and large doses of niacin, both standard cholesterol-reducing drugs.

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Brown divided his subjects into three groups, one taking niacin and colestipol, the second receiving colestipol and another cholesterol reducer, lovastatin.

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If cholesterol cannot be reduced with diet alone, the panel directed, physicians should prescribe such drugs as cholestyramine and colestipol, which act in the intestines and cause the body to utilize excess cholesterol.

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Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Blankenhorn of the University of Southern California reported that patients who were treated with a combination of the anticholesterol drug colestipol and the vitamin niacin showed a marked improvement over those who had maintained a low-fat diet alone.

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They include gemfibrozil, lovastatin, cholestyramine and colestipol.

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