Dosage for children
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Atorvastatin (lipitor) Simvastatin (zocor) Lovastatin (mevacor) Pravastatin (pravachol) Rosuvastatin (crestor) 10mg
5% of the
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Rosuvastatin (Crestor) is a statin used to lower your cholesterol to help protect your heart and blood vessels from serious, and even life
At 6 weeks, across-dose analyses showed that rosuvastatin 10 to 80 mg reduced LDL cholesterol by a mean of 8
Statins include atorvastatin (Lipitor), fluvastatin (Lescol XL), lovastatin (Altoprev), pitavastatin (Livalo), pravastatin, rosuvastatin (Crestor) and simvastatin
Lipitor
Atorvastatin (10–80 mg doses approved in 1996) and rosuvastatin (5–40 mg doses approved in 2003), have half‐lives at least ten‐fold longer than earlier statins
Comments: Since maximal effect of a given dose is seen within 4 weeks, periodic lipid determinations should be performed at this time and dosage adjusted accordingly
Pravastatin is a generic prescription medication
The dose of rosuvastatin oral tablets for treating high cholesterol and high triglycerides ranges from 5 mg to 40 mg
increase HDL (good) cholesterol levels in adults and some children Certain doses of rosuvastatin and atorvastatin reduce LDL more than other statins
These values resulted in a lower ratio of LDL cholesterol to HDL cholesterol during treatment with rosuvastatin (1
02 with atorvastatin; P<0
Rosuvastatin is one of the more potent statins available and is typically used in a comparably lower dose
Pediatric patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: 20 mg/day for patients 7
Children younger than 8 years of age—Use and dose must be determined by
Use a maximum simvastatin dose of 40 mg daily
* 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines: high-intensity statin lowers cholesterol by >50%, moderate-intensity statin lowers cholesterol by 30-50%, low-intensity statin lowers cholesterol by <30%
29% of reviewers reported a positive effect, while 56% reported a negative effect