Fenofibrate and statins, both of which are different in the nature of the drug, are lipid-lowering drugs.
Fenofibrate is a lipid-regulating drug that can be used to treat symptoms such as hyperlipidemia where glycerol-lowering and mixed hyperlipidemia effects are more pronounced than cholesterol effects, and where diet-control therapies in adults are not as effective.
This drug is mainly through the inhibition of very low density lipoprotein, triglyceride production, can be increased by the body’s catabolic metabolism, through which to reduce cholesterol, blood low density lipoprotein, triglycerides and other substances.
Statins are mainly a hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors, can be used to block the hydroxymethylglutaryl metabolic pathway in the body’s cells, which can effectively promote the reduction of intracellular cholesterol synthesis, but also will be able to feedback stimulation of the surface of the cell membrane LDL activity and receptor increase, but also able to serum cholesterol clearance increase.
In addition, statins belong to a large class of drugs, mainly including simvastatin, pravastatin, fluvastatin, atorvastatin and other drugs, so there is a difference between the two kinds of drugs, fenofibrate and statins.
Whether you choose to take fenofibrate or statins, you must take them under the guidance of a doctor, and remember not to blindly self-medicate, so as to avoid uncomfortable symptoms, and if you have uncomfortable symptoms, you should consult a doctor in time.