Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug that binds to intestinal bile acids and promotes their excretion, used to lower serum cholesterol levels and treat itching associated with jaundice.
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- noun A
drug that lowers the level ofcholesterol in theblood bysequestering bile acids .
Etymologies
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A series of studies in rabbits and mice has shown that reducing maternal cholesterol in pregnancy using a drug called cholestyramine or with high doses of vitamin E, an antioxidant, can lower the offspring's chance of developing high cholesterol, a condition that gets passed from the mother to the fetus and is a risk factor for a host of other diseases, including atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries.
Programming a Fetus for a Healthier Life Shirley S. Wang 2011
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A series of studies in rabbits and mice has shown that reducing maternal cholesterol in pregnancy using a drug called cholestyramine or with high doses of vitamin E, an antioxidant, can lower the offspring's chance of developing high cholesterol, a condition that gets passed from the mother to the fetus and is a risk factor for a host of other diseases, including atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries.
Programming a Fetus for a Healthier Life Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Taking medications that reduce blood levels of vitamin D, such as cholestyramine (Questran and generic), colestipol
Are you D-ficient? 2010
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Those include certain corticosteroids such as prednisone (Sterapred DS and generic); the weight-loss medication orlistat (Alli and Xenical); the cholesterol-lowering drug cholestyramine (Questran and generic); and the antiseizure drug phenytoin (Dilantin and generic).
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Those include certain corticosteroids such as prednisone (Sterapred DS and generic); the weight-loss medication orlistat (Alli and Xenical); the cholesterol-lowering drug cholestyramine (Questran and generic); and the antiseizure drug phenytoin (Dilantin and generic).
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In those days, the big cholesterol-lowering drug, cholestyramine, had to be stirred into water with a spoon.
USATODAY.com - 'Next frontier' in heart disease: Undoing it 2006
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It turns out that statin drugs like Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin), the first drugs that meaningfully reduced cholesterol with a reasonable side effect profile (a patient asked me about cholestyramine last week; I asked if she really wanted to eat four packets of sand a day) can lower cholesterol significantly while also markedly reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Archive 2008-01-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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It turns out that statin drugs like Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin), the first drugs that meaningfully reduced cholesterol with a reasonable side effect profile (a patient asked me about cholestyramine last week; I asked if she really wanted to eat four packets of sand a day) can lower cholesterol significantly while also markedly reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Another Nail in the Coffin of Correlation and Causation 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Included are colestipol (Colestid) and cholestyramine (Questran).
A Consumer's Guide to Choosing Cholesterol-lowering Medications 2008
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For example The Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial found that out of 3,086 pateints those taking cholestyramine had 30 CAD deaths vs 38 in the controls.
Gary Taubes responds to George Bray | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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