Medical Xpress Half were given the drug pravastatin over five years and all the men were followed up for at least 15 years. This is the first time the cost-effectiveness of statins has been assessed in this way. The results showed that for every 1,000 patients who ...
PR Newswire (press release) INTREPID was a Phase 4, multicenter, 12-week randomized superiority study followed by a 40-week safety extension study (NCT01301066) comparing the lipid-lowering effects of pitavastatin 4 mg and pravastatin 40 mg in adults with HIV infection and ... and more »
Nursing Times Simvastatin and pravastatin were the safest in the class, particularly when patients were prescribed low-to-moderate doses. While there was a small, 9%, rise in diabetes risk among statin users, this was outweighed by the benefits to heart patients ...
MedPage Today When comparing individual statins, simvastatin and pravastatin appeared to have the best safety profiles, and because of that they "should be favored in ...
Victoria Times Colonist Both pravastatin and fluvastatin have less risk of muscle aches than the other statins. Dear Dr. Roach: My doctor of the past 11 years had to close his practice. He had told me that women over 70 years of age should have a mammogram only every five years.
Dallas Morning News (blog) In the July 2013 edition of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 135 previous studies, which included 250,000 people taking stati...
Pulse The original study, conducted in over 6,000 middle-aged men with hypercholesterolaemia but no CHD, showed that treatment with pravastatin 40 mg daily led to a significant 12% reduction in all-cause mortality and 15% reduction in CHD deaths compared ...
