3. Results
Clinical and demographic characteristics between groups are reported
in Table 1.
After treatment, patients in group A showed a significant reduction
from baseline in total cholesterol, LDL-c and tryglicerides, with a trend
towards significance for increase in HDL-c (Table 2). Patients in group
B also showed a significant reduction from baseline in total cholesterol,
LDL-c and tryglicerides, with a significant increase in HDL-c.
In group A, 4 patients reported myalgia (9,7%) with an increase in
CPK, whereas no adverse events occurred in group B (p b 0.001). The
two groups did not differ for safety parameters, as shown in Table 3.