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Combination Drug Therapy in Psychopharmacology

The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1975
The frequency with which a psychotropic agent is used in combination with another drug preparation is emphasized. The authors present an update of the clinical and theoretical knowledge bearing on combination drug therapy in psychopharmacology. Drug combination interactions that enhance clinical efficacy and those that either diminish it or even ...
W E, Thornton, B J, Pray
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Combination drug therapy for dyslipidemia

Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 1999
Effective treatment of dyslipidemia improves prognosis. Statin therapy has been documented to decrease the cardiovascular event rate in the setting of elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease, but most patients are not treated to the target (LDL
K, Alaswad, J H, O'Keefe, R M, Moe
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Combination Drug Therapy for Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988
To compare the efficacy of gemfibrozil and colestipol with gemfibrozil and lovastatin in patients with familial combined hyperlipidemia.A prospective, randomized trial.An outpatient clinical research center in a tertiary care center.Seventeen patients with familial combined hyperlipidemia documented by studies of first-degree relatives; nine patients ...
C, East, D W, Bilheimer, S M, Grundy
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Combination drug therapy for combined hyperlipidemia

Current Cardiology Reports, 1999
Combination therapy for hyperlipidemia, especially combined hyperlipidemia, may have advantages over single drug therapy, affording better improvement in lipoprotein risk factors and possibly better prevention of atherothrombotic events. Although preliminary experience has been gained using treatment combinations of niacin with statins, and fibrates ...
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Combination drug–diet therapies for dyslipidemia

Translational Research, 2010
Expense, high drug dose, and low compliance to strict dietary therapies are current issues surrounding modern drug- and diet-based lipid-lowering approaches. Furthermore, variable patient outcomes and suboptimal response to both drug and diet therapies are increasingly evident. Therefore, the question arises as to whether more emphasis should be placed
Rideout, Todd C, Harding, Scott V, Marinangeli, Christopher P F, Jones, Peter J H   +3 more
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Fixed Combination Drug Therapy

Drugs, 1982
Almost half of all marketed drugs are fixed combination preparations, yet the World Health Organization included only 7 in its list of 240 "essential' drugs. There has been little scientific study of these preparations but much emotion and rhetoric has been expended both for and against them.
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Problems of Combination Drug Therapy in Children

Epilepsia, 1988
Summary: Despite the current trend toward monotherapy, polytherapy in children with epilepsy is still common. A drug combination is advantageous only if it achieves a higher efficacy: toxicity ratio (therapeutic index) or if its antiepileptic spectrum is wider.
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Drug Combinations as Rational Antihypertensive Therapy

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1974
The goal of antihypertensive therapy is to restore blood pressure to normal with as few side effects as possible. Usually this is best accomplished by skillfully combining two or more drugs in the regimen. A diuretic should be the cornerstone on which the regimen is built; for many patients with mild hypertension, a diuretic will be the only drug ...
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Combination Drug Therapy for Hypercholesterolemia

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1993
Background: The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends achievement of a defined target level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. They endorse the use of niacin and/or sequestrants as the first line of therapy to achieve such target LDL-C level.
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Combination Drug Therapy in the Elderly

2007
Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in the United States have been improving for geriatric patients (1). However, awareness, treatment, and control remain the lowest among the oldest age group (2). This is ironic given the fact that the largest body of outcomes trials documents the reduction of morbidity and mortality in the elderly ...
L. Michael Prisant, Laura Lyngby Mulloy
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