Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Mochida Pharmaceutical., Ltd.

Mitsuhiro Yokoyama

Yasushi Saito

Yuji Matsuzawa

Masunori Matsuzaki

Hideki Origasa

Shinichi Oikawa

Yuichi Ishikawa

Toru Kita

Hiroshige Itakura

Jun Sasaki

Hitoshi Hishida

Akira Kitabatake

Noriaki Nakaya

Toshiie Sakata

Kazuyuki Shimada

Kunio Shirato

Masahiko Ohta

Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.

Composition for preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular event in multiple risk patient

A medical composition for reducing the rate of new-onset diabetes caused by administration of a statin or for inhibiting an increase in blood glucose level by administration of a statin, the composition containing at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of icosapentaenoic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof as an inactive ingredient.

Composition for reducing new-onset diabetes

By using a composition for preventing onset and/or recurrence of stroke which contains ethyl icosapentate as its effective component, onset and/or recurrence of stroke is prevented, or in particular, the onset and/or recurrence of stroke in a hyperlipidemia patient who has been treated with HMG-CoA RI, or in particular the recurrence of stroke in a patient who is beyond six months after the onset of stroke, is prevented.

Composition and/or method for preventing recurrence of stroke

Provided are composition and/or methods useful in preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI.

Composition and/or method for preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events

Composition and method for preventing recurrence of stroke

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Mitsuhiro Yokoyama