THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for preventing and treating left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and diastolic congestive heart failure.;SOLUTION: The pharmaceutical composition for treating left ventricular diastolic dysfunction that is a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of icosapentaenoic acid, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and ester as an active ingredient and is administered to a patient having the ratio of icosapentaenoic acid/arachidonic acid (EPA/AA) in blood of ≤0.5.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT