Rosuvastatin is a generic prescription drug that’s used to treat high cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. Rosuvastatin comes as an oral tablet and belongs to a group of drugs ...

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 ...

Dosing a statin (rosuvastatin) every other day (EOD) may provide significant lipoprotein changes while avoiding common adverse effects in this statin-intolerant population. Objective: To determine ...

The rosuvastatin group had a higher rate of developing type 2 diabetes requiring medication (7.2% vs. 5.3%) and cataract surgery (2.5% vs. 1.5%), but other safety outcomes did not differ between ...

Rosuvastatin did show a significant benefit ... Alternative therapies might have differing effects on plaque composition. Statins have been among the most extensively studied classes of ...

Controversy persists regarding the extent of shared pathways between arterial and venous thrombosis and whether treatments of known efficacy for one disease process have consistent benefits for ...

To evaluate race differences in the pharmacodynamics of rosuvastatin in Western and Asian hypercholesterolemia patients using a population pharmacodynamic (PPD) model generated and validated using ...