Preventing and/or treating cardiovascular disease and/or associated heart failure
申请人:——
公开号:US20030203973A1
公开(公告)日:2003-10-30
Methods are provided for reducing copper values for, by way of example, treating, preventing or ameliorating tissue damage such as, for example, tissue damage that may be caused by (i) disorders of the heart muscle (for example, cardiomyopathy or myocarditis) such as idiopathic cardiomyopathy, metabolic cardiomyopathy which includes diabetic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, drug-induced cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and hypertensive cardiomyopathy, (ii) atheromatous disorders of the major blood vessels (macrovascular disease) such as the aorta, the coronary arteries, the carotid arteries, the cerebrovascular arteries, the renal arteries, the iliac arteries, the femoral arteries, and the popliteal arteries, (iii) toxic, drug-induced, and metabolic (including hypertensive and/or diabetic disorders of small blood vessels (microvascular disease) such as the retinal arterioles, the glomerular arterioles, the vasa nervorum, cardiac arterioles, and associated capillary beds of the eye, the kidney, the heart, and the central and peripheral nervous systems, (iv) plaque rupture of atheromatous lesions of major blood vessels such as the aorta, the coronary arteries, the carotid arteries, the cerebrovascular arteries, the renal arteries, the iliac arteries, the fermoral arteries and the popliteal arteries, (v) diabetes or the complications of diabetes.
提供了一些方法来减少铜的值,例如通过处理、预防或改善组织损伤,例如可能由以下原因引起的组织损伤:(i)心肌疾病(例如心肌病或心肌炎)如特发性心肌病、代谢性心肌病(包括糖尿病性心肌病、酒精性心肌病、药物诱导性心肌病、缺血性心肌病和高血压性心肌病)、(ii)主要血管的动脉粥样硬化性疾病(宏血管疾病)如主动脉、冠状动脉、颈动脉、脑血管动脉、肾动脉、髂动脉、股动脉和腘动脉、(iii)毒性、药物诱导和代谢性(包括小血管的高血压和/或糖尿病性疾病(微血管疾病)如视网膜小动脉、肾小动脉、神经血管、心脏小动脉以及与眼睛、肾脏、心脏以及中枢和外周神经系统相关的毛细血管床、(iv)主要血管的动脉粥样硬化斑块破裂如主动脉、冠状动脉、颈动脉、脑血管动脉、肾动脉、髂动脉、股动脉和腘动脉,(v)糖尿病或糖尿病并发症。