[Hyperlipidemia: physiopathology and our experience in the ambulatory care of 3 groups of patients undergoing blood lipid normalization treatment].

The authors tested the efficacy of three different lipid-lowering drugs in subjects with more or less severe alterations of the lipoprotein pattern. All subjects were submitted to blood tests prior to and at the end of treatment with special attention to the trend of the lipid pattern, assaying cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglyceride, total lipid blood levels and lipid electrophoresis. The drugs employed were: pantothenic acid, sulodexide, and DEAE-dextran.