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what is 'torcetrapib'?
Definition for Torcetrapib
Torcetrapib (CP-529,414, Pfizer ) was a drug being developed to treat hypercholesterolemia (elevated cholesterol levels) and prevent cardiovascular disease . Its development was halted in 2006 when phase III studies showed excessive all cause mortality in the treatment group receiving a combination of atorvastatin and the study drug.
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Torcetrapib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Efficacy and safety of torcetrapib, a novel cholesteryl ester transfer protein ... Medscape / HEARTwire : Torcetrapib Torpedoed: Increased Risk of Mortality, ...
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Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse Effects ...
Torcetrapib was viewed as a new line of therapy in lowering cholesterol levels. ... Torcetrapib is unique in comparison to the other cholesterol-lowering ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/treatments/a/torcetrapib2.htm
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Torcetrapib Fails
Torcetrapib, an HDL-raising drug, increases risk ... Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib. Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse Effects ...
http://heartdisease.about.com/od/cholesteroltriglycerides/a/torcetrapib1.htm
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Effects of torcetrapib in patients at high risk for coronary events.
We investigated whether torcetrapib, a potent CETP inhibitor, might reduce major ... The patients received either torcetrapib plus atorvastatin or atorvastatin alone. ...
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Torcetrapib: A Case of Profits vs. Patient Benefits on Yahoo! Health
Clinical trials on the drug were recently stopped because participants taking it were dying in greater numbers than those who weren't.
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/heartdisease/3000/torcetrapi...
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Drug designed to raise HDL levels falls down
The development of torcetrapib as a treatment for heart disease was brought to ... Torcetrapib, in development since 1990, works by inhibiting CETP, which ...
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Cholesterol Drug Trials Cancelled - Medications: Prescription Drugs and ...
Drug information on prescription and over the counter medications includes drug interactions, ... Torcetrapib was intended to raise HDL "good" cholesterol. ...
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=77926
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Mad About Medicine: Pharmas Try to Do Something RIght
One of the big pharmas developed a new drug called torcetrapib ... Torcetrapib is introduced to the public with the requirement that it must be ...
http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2006/10/pharmas-tr...
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Torcetrapib - Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib
Pfizer will begin to manufacture a new cholesterol-lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in its Loughbeg, Ireland facility soon. Toretrapib is a ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/currentresearch/a/torcetrapib.htm
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Talk:Torcetrapib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Torcetrapib is within the scope of WikiProject Chemicals, a daughter project of ... Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Torcetrapib" ...
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Effect of torcetrapib on carotid atherosclerosis i...[N Engl J Med ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical ...
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A Marketing and Ethical Dilemma on Yahoo! Health
Because of its dramatic ability to raise helpful HDL cholesterol, a new experimental drug called torcetrapib could become a popular drug for the
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/heartdisease/893/a-marketing-and-ethical-dilemma
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Niacin to boost your HDL 'good' cholesterol - MayoClinic.com
A Mayo Clinic cholesterol specialist explains how niacin can help boost your HDL ... drug recently in development called torcetrapib looked promising, but it had too ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/niacin/CL00036
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Certain Cholesterol Drugs Show Their Limits - Cholesterol Information ...
Read about cholesterol and related information. Learn how to lower your LDL cholesterol levels, and food and ... meeting took a closer look at torcetrapib. ...
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Designs of RADIANCE 1 and 2: carotid ultrasound studies comparing the ...
... designed to assess the effects of torcetrapib/atorvastatin (T/A) compared with ... (i) fixed combination T/A (torcetrapib dose, 60 mg), or (ii) atorvastatin ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17407645
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Shortcuts from Other Journals: Hope is fading fast for torcetrapib
Journal List > BMJ > v.334(7596); Apr 7, 2007. Abstract. Contents. Archive. Publisher's Site ... Hope is fading fast for torcetrapib. This item has no abstract. ...
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Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse Effects
Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse Effects. Sunday December 3, 2006. Torcetrapib was viewed as a new line of therapy in lowering cholesterol ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/b/2006/12/03/pfizer-stops-manuf...
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Heart Disease: Promising news for lower cholesterol
The drug, called torcetrapib, has no "brand" name yet, and Pfizer expects to ... the early trials have shown that torcetrapib is better at decreasing levels of " ...
http://blogs.webmd.com/heart-disease/2005/12/promising-news-...
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Cholesterylester transfer protein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A compound related to torcetrapib, going by the investigative name JTT-705/R1658, ... Effect of torcetrapib on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis" ...
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HDL Cholesterol - the New Frontier
Major efforts are being made to find ways of raising HDL levels ... Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib. Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse ...
http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/cholesterol/a/hdlfrontier.htm
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Promising HDL-boosting Drug Disappoints on Yahoo! Health
Larger trials of a once-promising HDL-bossing drug were stopped in early December because there were significantly ... Next Entry " Torcetrapib: A Case of ...
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/heartdisease/2997/promising-...
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Effects of an inhibitor of cholesteryl ester trans...[N Engl J Med ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE ... Effect of torcetrapib on carotid ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15071125
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Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib - Cholesterol Archives
Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib - Pfizer will begin to manufacture a new ... cholesterol-lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in its ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/b/a/2005_06.htm
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Effects of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein ...[J Lipid Res. 2008 ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and ... CETP by torcetrapib attenuates the ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18033754?ordinalpos=1&ito...
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Torcetrapib Raises HDL Levels When Combined With Lipitor (R)
Libracol(TM) Available in Select Stores in Canada > ... Torcetrapib, an investigational drug developed by Pfizer, has shown great ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/b/a/98227.htm
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Anacetrapib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Torcetrapib, another CETP inhibitor unsuccessfully developed by Pfizer [edit] References ... Anacetrapib? ? Torcetrapib.§ Combinations ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacetrapib
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Is good cholesterol always good?
The new drug, torcetrapib, raises HDL cholesterol by inhibiting cholesterol ... Notably, combined administration of torcetrapib and atorvastatin has additive ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=515190
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Raising high-density lipoprotein in humans through...[Arterioscler ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and ... safety of torcetrapib, a novel ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14739125
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eMedicine
With torcetrapib, CETP activity is only inhibited by about 50-60% to address the ... LDL levels are also reduced by torcetrapib by as much as 40%. During the 12-week ...
http://www.emedicine.com/email/lipid/issue2-1.htm
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Cholesterol medications may be prescribed by your physician to treat ...
Cholesterol medications may be prescribed by your physician to treat high cholesterol when ... Pfizer Stops Manufacturing Torcetrapib Due To Adverse Effects ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/prescriptionmeds/Prescription_Medications.htm
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Trial Cholesterol Drug Torcetrapib Strikes Out
Three new studies show, the novel HDL-boosting drug torcetrapib fails to slow plaque buildup in the arteries, but researchers are still holding out hope for similar ...
http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20070327/tr...
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Template:Lipid modifying agents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lipid modifying agents (C10) Statins (HMG-CoA reductase) Atorvastatin ? Cerivastatin? ? Fluvastatin ? Lovastatin ? Mevastatin ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lipid_modifying_agents
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Heart Disease, - Articles
An index of Articles for the Heart Disease guide site. ... Torcetrapib Raises HDL --- and Risk. Torcetrapib, an HDL-raising drug, increases risk ...
http://heartdisease.about.com/od/cholesteroltriglycerides/a/
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High HDL - Having High HDL May Not Be The Answer to Solving Heart Disease
While having high HDL cholesterol is good, the type of HDL you have might put ... Some were given the torcetrapib/Lipitor combination, while individuals in the ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/lw/Health-Medicine/Conditions-a...
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Niacin/simvastatin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Niacin/simvastatin (brand name Simcor, Abbott) is a drug ... "Drugs.com, Abbott Receives FDA Approval for Simcor (Niaspan ... Torcetrapib.§ Combinations ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin/simvastatin
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The role of CETP inhibition in dyslipidemia. [Curr Atheroscler Rep ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE ... JTT-705 and torcetrapib, are in an ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17877921
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HDL - How To Raise HDL
Although lowering cholesterol is important - especially bad ... For instance, torcetrapib appeared to be a promising new drug that would raise HDL levels. ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/lipoproteins/a/badhdl.htm
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Cholesterol Drug Trials Cancelled
The drug company Pfizer has suspended all clinical trials of its experimental cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, due to possible heart risks.
http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20061204/ch...
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Just How Important is Reducing LDL Cholesterol?
Similarly, torcetrapib reduces LDL and increases HDL cholesterol, but in 2006 ... Obviously (from estrogen studies and torcetrapib studies), the method by which ...
http://heartdisease.about.com/b/2008/01/24/just-how-importan...
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Colestipol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colestipol is a bile acid sequestrant. This pharmacology-related article is a stub. ... Anacetrapib? ? Torcetrapib.§ Combinations ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colestipol
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Cholesterol, - Articles
An index of Articles for the Cholesterol guide site. ... Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib ... lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/od/currentresearch/a/
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Drugs Approved Under Deadline Maybe Trouble Later - Medications ...
Drug information on prescription and over the counter medications includes ... "Of the two approaches, torcetrapib was clearly the more successful," wrote the ...
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=88194
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Nicotinyl alcohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicotinyl alcohol is a niacin derivative used as a hypolipidemic agent. This pharmacology-related article is a ... Anacetrapib? ? Torcetrapib.§ Combinations ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinyl_alcohol
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Effect of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein i...[Lancet. 2007 ...
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and ... Torcetrapib and carotid intima-media ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18068514
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Cholesterol June 2005 Archive
Pfizer Begins Manufacturing Torcetrapib. Monday June 27, 2005 ... cholesterol-lowering drug, a torcetrapib/atorvastatin combination, in its ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/b/a/2005_06_27.htm
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Lower Cholesterol - After ENHANCE, How Important Is Lower Cholesterol
Now that the ENHANCE trial results are available, how viable is the idea that ... Similarly, torcetrapib reduces LDL and increases HDL ("good") cholesterol. ...
http://heartdisease.about.com/od/cholesteroltriglycerides/a/ENHANCE_chol.htm
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eMedicine - Angina Pectoris : Article by Jamshid Alaeddini
Angina pectoris is the result of myocardial ischemia caused by an imbalance ... Torcetrapib and carotid intima-media thickness in mixed dyslipidaemia (RADIANCE ...
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic133.htm
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Colextran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colextran is a bile acid sequestrant. This ... Lipid modifying agents (C10) Statins (HMG-CoA reductase) ... Anacetrapib? ? Torcetrapib.§ Combinations ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colextran
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New Drug That Raises HDL Levels
... addresses the discovery of a new drug, torcetrapib, that elevates HDL levels. ... Although other drugs, including torcetrapib, lower LDL levels, this is the first ...
http://cholesterol.about.com/b/a/79925.htm
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