{"id":615,"date":"2024-09-18T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:56:00","slug":"millions-are-taking-a-drug-that-falls-short-of-its-promise-to-lower-risk-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Millions are Taking a Drug that Falls Short of its Promise to Lower Risk of Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2024\/09\/millions-are-taking-a-drug-that-falls-short-of-its-promise-to-lower-risk-of-heart-attack\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While fibrates are proven to lower triglyceride levels, which can serve as a biomarker for cardiovascular disease risk, several major clinical studies from the past 20 years have failed to show a benefit of fenofibrates over and above statins in further reducing heart-related events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2024\/09\/millions-are-taking-a-drug-that-falls-short-of-its-promise-to-lower-risk-of-heart-attack\/\">Millions are Taking a Drug that Falls Short of its Promise to Lower Risk of Heart Attack<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fibrates are proven to lower triglyceride levels, which can serve as a biomarker for cardiovascular disease risk, several major clinical studies from the past 20 years have failed to show a benefit of fenofibrates over and above statins in further reducing heart-related events.\u00a0 The post Millions are Taking a Drug that Falls Short of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}