CTV News The three drugs were atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and simvastatin , which are sold as Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor respectively. The researchers said no increased risk was seen with fluvastatin (which is sold under the brand names Lescol, Canef and Vastin ...
HealthCanal.com Atorvastatin accounted for more than half of all new statin prescriptions followed by rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin, lovastatin and fluvastatin. The study used pravastatin-treated patients as the comparison group as pravastatin has been shown ...
Toronto NewsFIX They studied 3,086 patients who had had a heart attack – assigning them to either the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin , or placebo, within four days of hospitalisation. Less than two per cent of the patients suffered a stroke during the four ... and more »
The Hindu Ultimately, fate intervened and, in November 2012, Ranbaxy had to issue a massive recall notice for atorvastatin after glass particles were discovered in samples. The FDA backed off from any suggestion that it may have bungled its approvals process for ... and more »
Medical News Today ... events was highest for atorvastatin (30 outcomes per 1000 person-years) and rosuvastatin (34 per 1000 person-years). Simvastatin made up for 26 outcomes per 1000 person-years with both fluvastatin and lovastatin at 21 outcomes per 100 person-years.
WebMD.Boots.com For instance, patients treated with atorvastatin were found to have a 22% increased risk of new-onset diabetes, rosuvastatin an 18% increased risk and simvastatin a 10% increased risk, relative to pravastatin, which was used for comparison purposes.
Huffington Post Canada In fact, atorvastatin is by far — by far — the most popular statin." The possible link between taking some statins and diabetes has been seen in the past. In fact, Health Canada warned in January that statin users may have a small increased risk of ...
MedPage Today We've also read that the Midwestern retail chain Meijer announced that it would provide free generic versions of Pfizer's cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor ( atorvastatin ) to patients with valid prescriptions in all of its 199 pharmacies. But for a ...
Nature World News However, patients on other drugs such as fluvastatin were at a 5 percent decreased risk and those on lovastatin were at a 1 percent decreased risk of developing the condition. "Compared with pravastatin, treatment with higher potency statins ...
