PCSK9 and its clinical importance with the new therapeutic targets against dyslipidemia

This is a remarkable progress; since the finding of statins, there was no new way of reducing, significantly, cholesterol and LDL fraction. It is also clear that this decrease, by statins, is related to future cardiovascular lesions, being useful in its primary and secondary prophylaxis. The authors...

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Main Authors: Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Ferreira, Francisco Antônio Helfenstein Fonseca, Cristóvão Luis Pitangueira Mangueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082012000400024&lng=en&tlng=en