Treatment with a calcium channel blocker, benidipine, or an angiotensin type 1 receptor blocker, losartan, decreases blood pressure, reduces lipid accumulation in the kidneys, and increases the expression of carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 143
Also, clinical studies done on patients with cervical cancer using pelvic radiation explained that Firmicutes-Proteobacteria ratio (F/P) reflects the severity of radiation toxicity, where it showed that patients with chronic radiation enteritis exhibited a reduction in Firmicutes and an increase in Proteobacteria
does not impact TG levels (Holst et al., 2016)
Other medications in this class, such as dulaglutide (Trulicity) or liraglutide (Victoza), have different pharmacokinetic profiles and may produce different responses in individual patients