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Anti-fat drugs can be remembered by:
"It's Easy, Believing Cholesterol-Reducing Statins, Never Ever, Fast Together.
"It's easy" means "intestine" and ezetimibe. Ezetimibe blocks cholesterol absorption at
the small intestine.
it's the easy way to prevent cholesterol absoprtion because there's only TWO actors: the intestine
and the drug.
"Believing cholesterol" means: Bile and coles-name.
Bile surrounds fat and the bile-fat complex gets in to the body.
Blocking bile is the hard way to prevent cholesterol absorption
because there are THREE actors: the intestine, the drug, and the bile.
These Bile acid resins have "coles"-at the start of their name
"Reducing statins" means: Statins are Inhibitors of HMG Co-A Reductase
so the liver can't make cholesterol.
"Never ever" means Niacin and Very-Low Density Lipoprotein.
Niacin is Vitamin B3 (See our B vitamin mnemonic video)
and VLDL transports fat around the body.
Fast ToGether means Fibrates decrease TriGlycerides.
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