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Ezetimibe therapy and its influence on oxidative stress and fibrinolytic activity
Nurver Turfaner1, Hafize Uzun, Huriye Balci
1Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Turkey. nurverdi@gmail.com
Objective:
The effect of ezetimibe on blood lipids, oxidative stress, and fibrinolytic activity in hyperlipidemic patients was investigated after three months of therapy.
Methods:
Thirty hyperlipidemic patients were treated for twelve weeks with ezetimibe 10 mg/day. A healthy control group with matching age and gender was also included. Fasting blood glucose, lipid parameters, paraoxonase (PON1), protein carbonyl (PCO), oxidized LDL (oxLDL), 8-isoprostane (ISOPR), total antioxidant capacity (TAC) levels, tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), and PAI-1/t-PA levels were evaluated.
Results:
Ezetimibe therapy for twelve weeks led to changes in lipid profile in accordance with the literature. Fibrinolytic activity parameters, PAI-1/tPA and tPA-1 decreased, whereas PAI-1 levels did not change significantly. Antioxidant parameters, serum PON1 activity, and TAC levels increased significantly compared with the basal values. Oxidant parameters, oxLDL, ISOPR, and PCO (which is an indicator of oxidative protein damage) decreased significantly after therapy.
Conclusions:
Ezetimibe therapy has beneficial effects on fibrinolytic activity and homeostasis between oxidant and antioxidant activity in hyperlipidemic patients This may be through lowering lipid levels or other mechanisms such as decreasing insulin resistance and the pleiotropic effects of the drug.
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