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Atorvastatin, sold under the brand name Lipitor among others, is a statin medication used to prevent cardiovascular disease in those at high risk and to treat abnormal lipid levels. [6] For the prevention of cardiovascular disease, statins are a first-line treatment in reducing cholesterol. [ 6 ]
The largest pharmaceutical in the world said that it intends to recall approximately 19,000 bottles of Lipitor 40 mg tablets distributed in the U.S. due to ... The largest pharmaceutical in the ...
The world's top drug maker recalled 191,000 bottles of its anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor due to reports of a moldy odor emanating from bottles supplied by a third-party – the same problem ...
Statins are linked to better health outcomes in older adults over the ... researchers analyzed data from the U.K. Biobank and Whitehall II study of more than 20,000 adults in the U.K. 70 years ...
The incidence of rhabdomyolysis was 0.44 per 10,000 patients treated with statins other than cerivastatin. However, the risk was over 10-fold greater if cerivastatin was used, or if the standard statins (atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, or simvastatin) were combined with a fibrate (fenofibrate or gemfibrozil) treatment ...
Cerivastatin (INN, [1] brand names: Baycol, Lipobay) is a synthetic member of the class of statins used to lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease.It was marketed by the pharmaceutical company Bayer A.G. in the late 1990s, competing with Pfizer's highly successful atorvastatin (Lipitor).
With policy reform, drug recalls, medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not entirely positive -- year for health care. The passage of the controversial ...
The discovery of HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA) reductase inhibitors, called statins, was a breakthrough in the prevention of hypercholesterolemia and related diseases.