{"id":855,"date":"2014-10-28T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=855"},"modified":"2014-10-28T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:32:56","slug":"fibrate-therapy-for-dyslipidaemia-and-prevention-of-cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Fibrate Therapy for Dyslipidaemia and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Modern Medicine - October 2014 Edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1410-october-2014\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fibrate Therapy for Dyslipidaemia and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease\u00a0\u2013 MM1410<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main use of fibrates is for the treatment of dyslipidaemia\u00a0to lower plasma triglyceride levels and to raise HDL-cholesterol\u00a0(HDL-C) levels. The effects of fibrates on LDL-cholesterol levels vary.\u00a0Fibrates may be used either as monotherapy or in combination with\u00a0statins. When combined with statins, fenofibrate is the preferred\u00a0fibrate as it has a low risk of myopathy. The benefits of fibrate\u00a0therapy in preventing ischaemic cardiovascular disease events\u00a0appear to be confined to patients with baseline dyslipidaemia (raised\u00a0triglyceride levels and\/or low HDL-C levels).<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine \u2013 October\u00a02014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibrate Therapy for Dyslipidaemia and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease\u00a0\u2013 MM1410 The main use of fibrates is for the treatment of dyslipidaemia\u00a0to lower plasma triglyceride levels and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[7,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiology","category-hypertension"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-dN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}