New Drug Boosts ‘Good’ Cholesterol, Sep 06, 2011

An experimental pill that boosts levels of "good" HDL cholesterol produced encouraging results in a mid-stage study, researchers say.

In the nine-month study of about 475 patients, dalcetrapib raised HDL levels by 31% compared with placebo. It did so without increasing blood pressure or impeding blood flow through the blood vessels.

The findings should ease safety concerns about HDL-boosting drugs that were raised when dalcetrapib's predecessor, torcetrapib, was shown to increase blood pressure and raise the risk of heart attacks and death from heart disease"

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