Patent ID: 9433617
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: A61K,A61P

Claim Text:
1. A method of treating a subject suffering from hyperlipidemia or hypercholesterolemia, the method comprising orally administering to the subject an effective amount of an MTP inhibitor, wherein said administration comprises three step-wise, increasing dose levels of the MTP inhibitor, wherein each dose level is 50% of the immediately following dose level, wherein the third dose level is about 0.2 to about 0.59 mg/kg/day, and wherein the MTP inhibitor is N-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)-9-[4-[4-[[[4′-(trifluoromethyl)[1,1′-biphenyl]-2-yl] carbonyl] amino]-1-piperidinyl]butyl]-9H-fluorene-9-carboxamide, methanesulfonate; and wherein each dose level is administered about 1 to about 12 weeks.