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  2. Pravastatin - Wikipedia

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    Pravastatin has undergone over 112,000 patient-years of double-blind, randomized trials using the 40 mg, once-daily dose and placebos. These trials indicate pravastatin is well tolerated and displays few noncardiovascular abnormalities in patients. [12]

  3. Prescription drug prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually are among the highest in the world. [1] [2] The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the American health care reform debate of 2009, and received renewed attention in 2015.

  4. Medication costs - Wikipedia

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    Medication costs can be the selling price from the manufacturer, that price together with shipping, the wholesale price, the retail price, and the dispensed price. [3]The dispensed price or prescription cost is defined as a cost which the patient has to pay to get medicines or treatments which are written as directions on prescription by a prescribers. [4]

  5. Mark Cuban on Pharmacy Prices, Health Care, and 'Good ...

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    Billionaire entrepreneur, co-host of ABC's Shark Tank, and Dallas Mavericks co-owner Mark Cuban's latest venture is the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. It aims to tackle the high cost and lack ...

  6. National Average Drug Acquisition Cost - Wikipedia

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    The National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) is the approximate invoice price pharmacies pay for medications in the United States. [1] This applies to chain and independent pharmacies but not mail order and specialty pharmacies. [1] Rebates pharmacies may receive after paying an invoice are not included. [1]

  7. Fenofibrate/pravastatin - Wikipedia

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    Pravastatin belongs to the group called statins. [2] It reduces total blood cholesterol by blocking the action of 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme-A (HMG-CoA) reductase, an enzyme in the liver involved in the production of cholesterol. [ 2 ]

  8. PROVE-IT TIMI 22 - Wikipedia

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    The Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy–Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 22 trial, also known as PROVE-IT TIMI 22, was a randomized, double-blind, clinical trial that recruited 4,162 people admitted within 10 days of an acute coronary event and randomised them to the lipid-lowering drugs pravastatin (40 mg) or atorvastatin (80 mg) and a 10-day course of the ...

  9. Discovery and development of statins - Wikipedia

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    Lovastatin (Figure 2) Pravastatin; Simvastatin; Type 2 statins Statins that are fully synthetic and have larger groups linked to the HMG-like moiety are often referred to as type 2 statins. One of the main differences between the type 1 and type 2 statins is the replacement of the butyryl group of type 1 statins by the fluorophenyl group of ...