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    Torcetrapib (CP-529,414, Pfizer) was a drug being developed to treat hypercholesterolemia (elevated cholesterol levels) and prevent cardiovascular disease...
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    a combination of torcetrapib and atorvastatin, an increase in cardiovascular events and mortality. A compound related to torcetrapib, Dalcetrapib (investigative...
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  • in deaths (torcetrapib), or having no meaningful clinical improvement despite HDL increases (dalcetrapib, evacetrapib). Failed: Torcetrapib: failed in...
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  • Pfizer's CETPi drug (torcetrapib) failed in the final stages of clinical development. Pfizer terminated the development program for torcetrapib and reportedly...
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    increasing HDL by any means is not necessarily helpful. For example, the drug torcetrapib is the most effective agent currently known for raising HDL (by up to...
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    replacing Henry McKinnell. On December 3, 2006, Pfizer ceased development of torcetrapib, a drug that increases production of HDL, which reduces LDL thought to...
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    previous acute coronary events. Other CETP inhibitors:[citation needed] Torcetrapib was developed by Pfizer until December 2006 but caused unacceptable increases...
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  • Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitors include the agents torcetrapib, anacetrapib and obicetrapib. They block transfer of cholesterol from...
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    modifies the risk of cardiovascular disease. The first CETP inhibitor, torcetrapib, was unsuccessful because it increased levels of the hormone aldosterone...
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    cardiovascular risk score for early detection of the harmful effects of Torcetrapib. In 2016 they also developed a test to diagnose latent tuberculosis,...
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