The role of rosuvastatin in the contemporary cardiologic pharmacotherapy Review article

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Marcin Wełnicki
Andrzej Folga
Artur Mamcarz

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Statins are nowadays one of the most common used drug groups. Studies performed during last few decades showed, that statins should be prescribed in many clinical conditions, not only those concerned with cardiology. HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors are consider to be a key point in pharmacological secondary prevention of cardiovascular events. In practice however in many patients there are still problems with reaching cholesterol goals, so that new methods of mono- and polytherapy are needed. Rosuvastatin, the strongest representative of the group, now available on polish market, have been put at the center of attention due to the recent JUPITER study results. It has been shown, that in generally healthy patients without cardiovascular diseases, with normal LDL cholesterol concentration but increased hsCRP level rosuvastatin can significantly reduce global cardiovascular risk. In this article, as a background for the discussion about rosuvastatin in the most important trials, authors describe present role of the statins in guidelines referring to cardiovascular diseases.

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Wełnicki , M., Folga, A., & Mamcarz , A. (2010). The role of rosuvastatin in the contemporary cardiologic pharmacotherapy. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 3(3(8), 35-42. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2575
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