PCSK9 Inhibitor Enhances Cholesterol-Lowering Effect Of Atorvastatin

When added to low-dose atorvastatin a much-discussed new monoclonal antibody to PCSK9 significantly lowers cholesterol more effectively than atorvastatin alone, according to a phase 2 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Earlier this year, in March, the findings of three phase 1 trials demonstrating the cholesterol-lowering effects of the drug in healthy volunteers and in people with familial or nonfamilial hypercholesterolemia were also published in NEJM.