{"id":31963,"date":"2016-11-16T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cholesterol-drug-shows-promise-to-help-reverse-heart-disease"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:42","slug":"cholesterol-drug-shows-promise-to-help-reverse-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/cholesterol-drug-shows-promise-to-help-reverse-heart-disease","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol drug shows promise to help reverse heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cholesterol-drug-shows-promise-to-help-reverse-heart-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Progress for heart disease!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For the first time, a new drug given along with a cholesterol-lowering statin medicine has proved able to shrink plaque that is clogging arteries, potentially giving a way to undo some of the damage of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The difference was very small but doctors hope it will grow with longer treatment, and any reversal or stabilization of disease would be a win for patients and a long-sought goal.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, Amgen Inc.\u2019s Repatha, also drove LDL, or <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bad+cholesterol\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bad cholesterol<\/a>, down to levels rarely if ever seen in people before. Heart patients are told to aim for below 70, but some study participants got as low as 15.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-11-cholesterol-drug-reverse-heart-disease.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;11-cholesterol-drug-r...sease.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress for heart disease! For the first time, a new drug given along with a cholesterol-lowering statin medicine has proved able to shrink plaque that is clogging arteries, potentially giving a way to undo some of the damage of heart disease. The difference was very small but doctors hope it will grow with longer treatment, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49590,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions\/49590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}