Lilly's Evacetrapib Raises More Doubts For HDL Theory

The obituary has been written on Eli Lilly & Co.'s cholesterol drug evacetrapib and likely for the class of CETP inhibitors as a whole. While the big pharma stopped development of the drug in October, data released at the American College of Cardiology shows the class and the theory behind it might be faulty.

Results from the ACCELERATE study were released at the conference in Chicago on April 3, showing that evacetrapib lowered bad cholesterol, or LDL-C, by 37%, while improving good cholesterol, of...

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