Top 200 Drugs Podcast – Medications 91-95

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Real Life Pharmacology Podcast, I cover 5 more medications of the top 200.

Fenofibrate is a medication used primarily to reduce triglycerides. This medication differs from statins which tend to focus on LDL management.

Doxazosin is an alpha-blocker. The primary indications of doxazosin are hypertension and BPH.

Naproxen is an NSAID. Of all the NSAIDs, naproxen is one of the lower-risk agents with regard to cardiovascular risk.

Spironolactone is an aldosterone antagonist and also classified as a potassium sparing diuretic.

Memantine is an NMDA antagonist that is indicated for the management of Alzheimer's dementia.

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0:00.0	Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Derek Christensen.
0:05.5	Thank you so much for listening today. As always, go check out Real Life Pharmacology.com. I've got all
0:11.7	these medications more in-depth. If you're looking for a specific review on a medication, the drugs today
0:20.3	are going to be phenofibrate, doxazosin, neproxin,
0:26.0	spirulactone, and the last one we'll cover is memmintine. So again, I've tackled all these
0:33.7	medications individually and much longer, more detailed podcasts. So definitely go to
0:39.1	real life pharmacology.com, hit the podcast tab, and there should be a search bar on there where
0:44.0	you can search a specific medication and go back and listen to them in more detail. So take
0:50.4	advantage of that while you're at real life pharmacology.com. Definitely go check out the top
0:55.9	200 medications PDF. It's a 31 page PDF on some of the most important things you're going to see in
1:01.6	practice as well as show up on your pharmacology and board exam. So definitely a no-brainer
1:07.4	to have for any healthcare professional or any aspiring healthcare professional.
1:13.5	All right, let's get into the medications today. We've got phenofibrate.
1:18.4	Brand name of this medication is tricor. There's a bunch of different brand name medications for this.
1:26.3	Trichore, lofibra, phenoglide, those are probably three of the more common ones that I've seen
1:32.9	utilized.
1:34.6	It is a fibrate derivative.
1:38.6	It's a medication used to lower cholesterol.
1:42.5	And mechanistically, its classification is a P. PAR agonist.
1:48.5	So what does that mean?
1:50.5	Phenofibrate is a paroxysome proliferator-activated receptor alpha agonist.
1:58.8	And that activation of P-par.R. Alpha increases lipolysis and ultimately the elimination of triglyceride rich particles from the plasma.
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