HealthDay - Crestor for High Cholesterol
Only a month after getting a government advisory committee’s go-ahead, Crestor (rosuvastatin) has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used to fight high cholesterol.
Crestor, a prescription medication, is in a class of drugs known asHMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins).
The FDA, in granting its approval, said:
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“Rosuvastatin was approved based on multiple trials of at least 6 weeks duration in which Rosuvastatin treatment was compared to placebo and other marketed statins. In these trials, rosuvastatin reduced total-C, LDL-C, and TG and increased HDL-C with therapeutic response occurring within one week and maximum response seen at four weeks. Approximately 12,000 patients …
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