Welchol for Oral Suspension is used in comination with fruit juice or diet soft drinks, and is indicated for the adult patients suffering from primary hyperlipidemia and type 2 diabetes.
Daiichi Sankyo‘s Welchol helps in improving LDL cholesterol and glycemic control when used in addition with diet and exercise by the adult patients with high LDL cholesterol and type 2 diabetes.
Daiichi Sankyo Medical Research and Strategy Therapeutic Areas Hypertension and Metabolism head, executive medical director Oliseyenum Nwose said Welchol for Oral Suspension is once-daily, sugar-free, citrus-flavored and non-systemically absorbed, which means it is not metabolized in the liver or kidneys.