Composition for preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular event in multiple risk patient
AssigneeMochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsuhiro Yokoyama, Hideki Origasa, Masunori Matsuzaki, Yuji Matsuzawa, Yasushi Saito
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Abstract
Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.
Claims8
A composition for preventing occurrence of a cardiovascular event in a hypercholesterolemia patient, the composition comprising ethyl icosapentate as its effective component, wherein the patient also suffers from at least one risk factor selected from the group consisting of
- (1) obesity,
- (2) hypertension or prehypertension,
- (3) diabetes, prediabetes, or abnormal glucose tolerance, and
- (4) hypertriglyceridemia and/or low HDL cholesterolemia.
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