ABSTRACT
The article presents the results for the study of lipid correction capacity and safety of concomitant use of policosanol and rosuvastatin compared with rosuvastatin monotherapy in patients with stable coronary artery disease and moderate hepatic dysfunction. Fifty-seven subjects aged 37 to 72 years (mean age 54.4 years +/- 6.5 years) have been enrolled into the study with the following inclusion criteria: therapy with statins for more than 8 weeks, failure to achieve target LDL cholesterol levels and moderately elevated liver enzymes. The following laboratory tests were performed at baseline and after 12 weeks of follow-up: blood lipid profile (total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), very low density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and triglycerides (TG), lipid peroxidation (ma- Ionic dialdehyde (MDA), glycosylated hemoglobin HbAlc (%) and liver function tests (gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase-gamma-GTP) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Concomitant use of policosanol with rosuvastatin was superior to rosuvastatin monotherapy in terms of reduction of pro-aterogenicity of lipid metabolism by decreasing serum TC, LDL-C and TG, increasing serum HDL-C and decreasing the pro-oxidative activity (MDA) with simultaneous substantial improvement of hepatic function. Concomitant use of policosanol at the dose of 20 mg/day and rosuvastatin at 10-20 mg/day was favorably tolerated. None of the subjects had any discontinuations of therapy due to adverse events.