Fenofibrate API

Product Description

 Fenofibrate is an oral medication of the fibrate class used to treat abnormal blood lipid levels.It is less preferred to statin medications as it does not appear to reduce the risk of heart disease or death.Its use is recommended together with dietary changes.

Fenofibrate is mainly used for primary hypercholesterolemia or mixed dyslipidemia. Fenofibrate reduces risk and progression of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetic patients. It was initially indicated for diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in Australia. The large scale, international FIELD and ACCORD-Eye trials found that fenofibrate therapy reduced required laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy by 31%, as well as reducing progression by 3.7% over 4 years.Although no statistically significant cardiovascular risk benefits were identified in these trials, benefits may accrue to add on therapy to patients with high triglyceride dyslipidaemia currently taking statin medications.

Fenofibrate appears to reduce the risk of below ankle amputations in patients with Type 2 diabetes without microvascular disease. The FIELD study reported that fenofibrate at doses of 200mg daily, reduced the risk for any amputation by 37% independent of glycaemic control, presence or absence of dyslipidaemia and its lipid-lowering mechanism of action.However, the cohort of participants who underwent amputations were more likely to have had previous cardiovascular disease (e.g. angina, myocardial infarction), longer duration of diabetes and had baseline neuropathy.

Fenofibrate has an off-label use as an added therapy of high blood uric acid levels in people who have gout.

It is used in addition to diet to reduce elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), total cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), and apolipoprotein B (apo B), and to increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) in adults with primary hypercholesterolemia or mixed dyslipidemia