How rosuvastatin and atorvastatin help lower LDL cholesterol. They also protect the heart and encourage lifestyle changes.

Rosuvastatin (Crestor) is used to treat several types of high cholesterol and to prevent heart disease. Learn about side effects, warnings, dosage, and more.

Among those assigned to rosuvastatin, the median LDL cholesterol level at 12 months was 55 mg per deciliter (1.4 mmol per liter) (interquartile range, 44 to 72 [1.1 to 1.9]), and the median high ...

Atorvastatin, known commercially as Lipitor, was first approved for lowering LDL cholesterol in 1996 and lost patent protection in 2011. Crestor, the brand name of rosuvastatin, was approved in 2003 ...

A total of 5011 patients at least 60 years of age with New York Heart Association class II, III, or IV ischemic, systolic heart failure were randomly assigned to receive 10 mg of rosuvastatin or ...

Compared with atorvastatin, rosuvastatin is associated with increased risks of hematuria, proteinuria and kidney failure with replacement therapy, according to a study.Further, investigators found ...

For example, the Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of Rosuvastatin Versus Atorvastatin Simvastatin and Pravastatin Across Doses (STELLAR trial) showed that rosuvastatin 10 to 80 mg exhibited a ...

Rosuvastatin for cholesterol lowering was associated with slightly greater risks for kidney harm than atorvastatin, risks that were greater at higher-dose levels, in a large retrospective cohort ...

Wilmington, DE - Well before its FDA approval in August, rosuvastatin (Crestor ®, AstraZeneca) had been primed to explode onto the statin market. Nicknamed the "gorilla statin," or the "super ...

Treatment with the anticholesterol medicine rosuvastatin calcium did not reduce the risk of fracture among men and women who had elevated levels of an inflammatory biomarker, according to a report ...

Study findings In the current study titled Supplements, Placebo or Rosuvastatin Study (SPORT), researchers analyzed the data of 199 otherwise healthy adults between the ages of 40 and 75 years ...

“We quantified her rosuvastatin level and found it to be 15 times higher than it should be for someone on her dose. She could not have tolerated a rosuvastatin concentration this high for 5 years.” ...