Effects of intensive diet and exercise intervention in patients taking cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Patients taking cholesterol-lowering drugs were placed on a very low fat, high-complex-carbohydrate diet with daily aerobic exercise and achieved 19%, 20% and 29% reductions in total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides, respectively. Fifty-one percent of the primary care physicians had not used diet therapy before initiating drugs and 29% did not use diet therapy along with the drugs as recommended by the National Cholesterol Education Program.
Barnard
R J
RJ
Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1527, USA.
DiLauro
S C
SC
Inkeles
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SB
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000097:blood / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D000960:Hypolipidemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States
D004041:Dietary Fats; D000960:Hypolipidemic Agents; D008055:Lipids