title: A randomized, multicentre, open-label, parallel-group trial to compare the efficacy and safety profile of daming capsule in patients with hypercholesterolemia.
abstract: To study the efficacy and tolerability of Daming capsule (DMC) in Chinese patients with hyperlipidemia, a randomized, multi-centre, open-label, parallel-group trial was conducted. Sixty enrolled patients with hyperlipidemia allocated to six medical centers were randomly divided into two groups of 30 individuals each. One group received DMC 2 g b.i.d. for 6 weeks, and the other received pravastatin 10 mg o.d. for 6 weeks. For efficacy assessment, serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) were measured before and after drug treatment. Serum TC and LDL-C levels in the DMC-treatment group were significantly decreased compared with those before treatment (p < 0.05), while TG and HDL-C levels did not change much. Tolerability was assessed by heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), body mass index (BMI), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and creatinine (Cr), which were not changed in either the DMC or pravastatin groups at 3 and 6 weeks (p > 0.05). Besides, eight patients experienced diarrhea during DMC treatment and two experienced myalgia and epigastric discomfort during pravastatin treatment. Based on the above results, it was concluded that DMC may be a good candidate for the treatment of hyperlipidemia and further clinical trials are warranted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Harbin Medical University, and the State-Province Key Laboratory of Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics, Harbin, People's Republic of China. aijing_86@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Ai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: Zhao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li-Mei
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yan-Jie
authors.forename: Cai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ben-Zhi
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yong
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bao-Feng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000924:Anticholesteremic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002214:Capsules; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL / Q000097:blood; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D017035:Pravastatin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D000924:Anticholesteremic Agents; D002214:Capsules; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D014280:Triglycerides; D003404:Creatinine; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; D017035:Pravastatin