What is Repatha®?
Repatha® is a medicine used to lower levels of cholesterol.
Repatha® is a medicine used to lower levels of cholesterol.
Repatha® is used along with diet and in combination with usual therapy, including cholesterol-lowering medications called statins, to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and certain heart procedures (to restore blood flow to the heart) in adult patients who have cardiovascular disease.
Repatha® is also used alone or together with other cholesterol-lowering medicines, along with diet, in adults with primary hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol level in your blood) to reduce LDL cholesterol.
Repatha® is also used along with diet and other LDL lowering therapies in people with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia 12 years and older (an inherited condition that causes high levels of LDL), who need additional lowering of LDL cholesterol.
You should stay on your cholesterol-lowering diet while taking this medicine.
Possible side effects include:
If you experience any side effects not listed here, or if any side effect becomes bad enough to interfere with your daily activities, contact your healthcare professional.
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