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Why Has Your Physician Prescribed Welchol?
Welchol™ (colesevelam HCl) is a prescription medication that can be used to improve blood glucose control in adults with type 2 diabetes who are on certain other anti-diabetic medications for blood glucose. Welchol can also be used for people whose LDL-C, the "bad" cholesterol, is too high, despite diet and exercise.
Your physician may prescribe Welchol together with certain other type 2 diabetes medicines to help control blood glucose. When added to metformin, a sulfonylurea, or insulin, Welchol further reduces blood glucose levels.
Welchol can also be prescribed alone or with other cholesterol-lowering medications to lower LDL-C. When used with a statin, Welchol helps lower LDL-C more than a statin alone.
Welchol has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks.