Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Muramoto

Kaoru Okamoto

Taisuke Hasegawa

Kiyoshi Fukuda

Takayuki Kotani

Benzothiazole derivatives, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and therapeutic agents containing said compounds as an effective component possess a lipid lowering activity and are useful pharmaceuticals for the treatment of hyperlipemia. The lipid lowering agents are of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is halogen, trifluoromethyl, acetamido or --OX.sub.1 ; X.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl or acyl; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, amino which may be substituted with alkyl or acyl, carboxy which may be esterified with alkyl, or --OX.sub.2 ; X.sub.2 is hydrogen, alkyl, acyl, carboxyalkyl which may be esterified with alkyl; n is an integer from 1 to 3 denoting the number of substituents R.sub.2 ; and plural R.sub.2 may be the same or different when n is 2 or 3; with the proviso that R.sub.1 is a group other than halogen when R.sub.2 is hydrogen. The benzothiazole derivatives and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts significantly decrease cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein in blood.

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