simvastatin
IPA: sˈɪmʌvˈæstʌtɪn
noun
- (pharmacology) A semisynthetic drug C₂₅H₃₈O₅ that decreases the level of cholesterol in the bloodstream and is derived from a compound produced by a mold (Aspergillus terreus).
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Examples of "simvastatin" in Sentences
- The highest approved dose of simvastatin is 80 mg.
- In the UK the patent for simvastatin had expired by 2004.
- Only simvastatin and atorvastatin were included in the guideline.
- The development of simvastatin was closely linked with lovastatin.
- Never mind that simvastatin is better tested simvastatin is now also generic.
- It is most interesting that simvastatin effectively attenuated these effects.
- There are several different types of toxicity that can occur with simvastatin.
- Many patients defected from Lipitor to that generic, called simvastatin, to take advantage of the lower cost.
- Discussion The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Simvastatin on bone in an established mouse model of osteoporosis.
- One statin, a generic drug called simvastatin, is already available in low doses over the counter at pharmacies in Britain without a prescription, at a cost of only a few pence per pill.
- Vytorin combines in one pill two different kinds of treatments - a statin called simvastatin and a newer drug called ezetimibe, also known as Zetia - that lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol.
- On Drugs 'Link To Muscle Injury WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators continue to receive reports of muscle injury in patients taking a combination of simvastatin, which is used in the controversial cholesterol drug Vytorin, and the heart-rhythm medication amiodarone.
- According to an analysis of clinical trial data in America, large doses of simvastatin, which is taken in order to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of having a heart attack, can cause muscle damage and a rare condition which induces kidney problems and may be fatal.
- Food and drug administration said it has focused health-care vessels that the rxlist vytorin was traveling a withdrawal from the so-called simvastatin and ezetimibe in aortic stenosis (seas) shortness of a unaffected species between the cure of vytorin and an brought cream of a death of cancers.
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