{"id":72521,"date":"2017-09-14T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-drug-slows-down-heart-disease-progression"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:25","slug":"new-drug-slows-down-heart-disease-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-drug-slows-down-heart-disease-progression","title":{"rendered":"New Drug Slows Down Heart Disease Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-slows-down-heart-disease-progression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PCSK9 inhibitors, a new type of therapy, has arrived and appear to be an effective therapy for lowering LDL cholesterol to a level that exceeds the current standard of care.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the results from a clinical trial at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital showed that the drug evolocumab, when combined with statins, significantly and safely reduced the risk of cardiovascular events.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/pcsk9\/\">http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/pcsk9\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCSK9 inhibitors, a new type of therapy, has arrived and appear to be an effective therapy for lowering LDL cholesterol to a level that exceeds the current standard of care. Recently, the results from a clinical trial at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital showed that the drug evolocumab, when combined with statins, significantly and safely reduced [\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-72521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521","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=72521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions\/72559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}