The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE 1018
ISSUE 1018
January 16, 1998
Issue 1018
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Cerivastatin for Hypercholesterolemia
January 16, 1998 (Issue: 1018)
Cerivastatin (Baycol - Bayer), a new HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (or "statin"), has been approved by the FDA for treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Cerivastatin is the sodium salt of a synthetic fluorophenyl pyridinyl-substituted heptanoic...more
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