Nursing Times They classed rosuvastatin at doses of 10mg or higher, atorvastatin at doses of 20mg or higher, and simvastatin at doses of 40mg or more as high potency and all others as low potency. The study, published on bmj.com, found high potency statin users were ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Other cholesterol-reducing drugs, particularly Crestor (rousuvastatin) and Zocor ( simvastatin ), also have been shown to increase the risk of diabetes. The connection is much less clear with earlier cholesterol reducing drugs, such as Pravachol and ... and more »
Reuters Gellad and his colleagues studied four classes of drugs used by people with diabetes, including oral hypoglycemic drugs, such as metformin, and statins like simvastatin (marketed as Zocor). The proportion of patients on one of those drugs who used a ... and more »
Healio In 2009, 81.6% of US niacin prescriptions were for Niaspan; Advicor (niacin plus lovastatin, Abbvie Inc.) and Simcor (niacin plus simvastatin , Abbvie Inc.) accounted for 18.4%. In 2009, 85.5% of Canadian niacin prescriptions were for Niaspan; Advicor ... and more »
FireEngineering.com At Heart Failure 2013, the annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), held in May in Lisbon, Portugal, the results of the “Q-SYMBIO” study were revealed: Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) decreases all-cause ...
Blouin News Blogs Gellad and his colleagues studied four classes of drugs used by people with diabetes, including oral hypoglycemic drugs, such as metformin, and statins like simvastatin (marketed as Zocor). The proportion of patients on one of those drugs who used a ...
Yahoo! News Gellad and his colleagues studied four classes of drugs used by people with diabetes, including oral hypoglycemic drugs, such as metformin, and statins like simvastatin (marketed as Zocor). The proportion of patients on one of those drugs who used a ... and more »
separationsNOW.com Like millions of people around the world, I have been prescribed statins by my doctor to keep my cholesterol levels down. Not that my indulgent lifestyle was making them particularly high in the first place but it seems that they were starting to rise ...
