March 25, 2008 – The VAP cholesterol test from Atherotech is helping physicians pinpoint the most effective cholesterol and heart disease risk lowering treatments in Type II diabetes patients, providing valuable and potentially lifesaving information to diabetics and the doctors who treat them.Leveraging the expanded cholesterol profiling capabilities of the VAP test, researchers in the Diabetes and Combined Lipid Therapy Regimen (DIACOR) study found that combining statin therapy with a fibrate is the most effective way to correct an adverse cardiovascular risk profile in individuals with diabetes and mixed dyslipidemia (elevated LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels combined with decreased levels of HDL cholesterol).
The results of the 12-week, single center, double-blind, placebo-controlled study were recently published in American Journal of Cardiology. Researchers were able to use the VAP Test to measure the effects of simvastatin alone, fenofibrate alone and the combination of both on lipid subparticles in 300 patients (randomized) with Type II diabetes without existing heart disease... Atherotech 's Press Release -
