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Pharmacology: Antihyperlipedemic Agents
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Pharmacology: Antihyperlipedemic Agents
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1. In a 50-year-old male without any other coronary artery disease risk factor, hypocholesterolemic drugs are recommended only when the serum LDL cholesterol level is higher than
2. Which of the following statements is true regarding cholestyramine?
3. A patient with coronary artery disease has raised serum triglyceride (600 mg/ dl) but normal total cholesterol level (150 mg/dl). Which hypolipidemic drug should be prescribed
4. Choose the drug which has a direct effect on platelet membrane to inhibit aggregation, release reaction and to improve platelet survival in extra-corporeal circulation
5. The rare but characteristic adverse effect of HMGCoA reductase inhibitors is
6. Choose the correct statement about lovastatin
7. Hydroxyethyl starch is a
8. What is true of nicotinic acid as well as nicotinamide?
9. In a 50-year-old male without any other coronary artery disease risk factor, hypocholesterolemic drugs are recommended only when the serum LDL cholesterol level is higher than
10. Nicotinic acid
11. Which hypolipidemic drug has been used to control and prevent pancreatitis in familial hypertriglyceridemia?
12. High molecular weight, pharmacodynamically inert, nonantigenic substances which form colloidal solution are used as
13. Choose the drug which has a direct effect on platelet membrane to inhibit aggregation, release reaction and to improve platelet survival in extra-corporeal circulation
14. Probucol
15. A patient with coronary artery disease has raised serum triglyceride (600 mg/ dl) but normal total cholesterol level (150 mg/dl). Which hypolipidemic drug should be prescribed
16. Cholestyramine resin
17. Select the hypocholesterolemic drug which interferes with intestinal absorption of bile salts and cholesterol, and secondarily increases cholesterol turnover in the liver
18. Choose the correct statement about lovastatin