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  2. Rosuvastatin - Wikipedia

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    Rosuvastatin, sold under the brand name Crestor among others, is a statin medication, used to prevent cardiovascular disease in those at high risk and treat abnormal lipids. [6] It is recommended to be used together with dietary changes, exercise, and weight loss. [ 6 ]

  3. Statin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Discovery and development of statins - Wikipedia

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    It has been reported that the organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP) is important for the hepatic uptake of hydrophilic statins such as rosuvastatin and pravastatin. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] OATP-C is expressed in liver tissue on the basolateral membrane of hepatocytes and is considered to be a potential contributor for the low IC 50 for ...

  5. AZ's Crestor Scored Points, but Didn't Beat Lipitor - AOL

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    AstraZeneca's (NYS: ANZ) press release on the SATURN trial is an object lesson in how to spin a study that didn't turn out as expected: Focus on the positive. The company announced SATURN showed ...

  6. Older adults over age 70 should consider taking statins ...

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    For this observational study, researchers analyzed data from the U.K. Biobank and Whitehall II study of more than 20,000 adults in the U.K. 70 years and older with or without previous ...

  7. AstraZeneca's Crestor Fails to Best Lipitor in Study - AOL

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    AstraZeneca (NYS: AZN) just lost a potential marketing edge for Crestor. In trial results announced today, the statin drug failed to best Lipitor at clearing clogged arteries, at least in a ...