Active clinical trials for "Hypercholesterolemia"

To determine the effect of investigational products on serum LDL cholesterol.

The study is being conducted to compare the effect of standard treatment (target LDL-C level: <120 mg/dL (JASGL 2007 target level)) and intensive treatment (target LDL-C level: <70 mg/dL) in the prevention of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in hypercholesterolemia patients with concomitant type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

This study will compare the lipid-altering efficacy and safety of switching to co-administration of ezetimibe and atorvastatin versus treatment with atorvastatin or rosuvastatin in high cardiovascular risk patients with hypercholesterolemia who have not achieved specified low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. The primary hypothesis is that the co-administration of ezetimibe 10 mg and atorvastatin 10 mg will be superior to both atorvastatin 20 mg and rosuvastatin 10 mg with respect to the percentage reduction in low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) after 6 weeks of treatment.

Primary Objective: Injection Site Tolerability Secondary Objectives: To assess the safety profile of alirocumab SAR236553 (REGN727) To assess the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationship of alirocumab SAR236553 (REGN727)

The aim of this clinical study was to determine the efficacy on plasma cholesterol-lowering of a water dispersible formulation of plant sterol (WD-PS) preparation versus plant sterol esters (PS-ester), consumed within dairy products.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of adding anacetrapib to ongoing statin therapy in participants with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH).

A study to determine the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of evolocumab (AMG 145) in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

Elevated LDL-cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. In patients with heart disease LDL-cholesterol should be lowered to levels below 70 mg/dl to prevent progression of disease. In most patients life style modification together with lipid lowering drug therapy is sufficient to achieve this goal. In some patients with severe forms of hypercholesterolemia, this may not be sufficient to reach goals and regular lipid apheresis (a costly and time intensive form of therapy) may be performed. Mipomersen is a new drug (apoB antisense oligonucleotide) that can lower LDL-cholesterol even in the most severe forms of LDL-hypercholesterolemia by 25-47%. It is unknown whether and to what extent mipomersen can decrease LDL-cholesterol in patients treated with regular apheresis. Phase 1 of the study will test how 6 months of weekly therapy with mipomersen affects LDL-cholesterol in patients with severe LDL-hypercholesterolemia treated with regular apheresis. Phase 2 will test in how many patients this will result in a meaningful reduction of apheresis time, apheresis frequency or if apheresis can be stopped completely.

To compare the effect of rosuvastatin to protease inhibitor switching on fasting total cholesterol over 12 weeks.

The primary objective is to investigate the safety of Caduet (2.5 mg/5 mg, 2.5 mg/10 mg, 5 mg/5 mg or 5 mg/10 mg as dose of Amlodipine/Atorvastatin) during 52 weeks treatment period in Japanese patients with both of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, or with both angina pectoris and hypercholesterolemia.