Lipitor is used to reduce the amounts of LDL (bad) cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides (another type of fat), and apolipoprotein B (a protein needed to make cholesterol) in your blood. Lipitor is also used to increase the level of HDL (good) cholesterol in your blood. These actions are important in reducing the risk of hardening of the arteries, which can lead to he...
January 01 1970 01:00:00.


The Food and Drug Administration

FDA Alerts U.S. Residents to Recall of Counterfeit "Lipitor" Sold in the United KingdomThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting U.S. residents to the recent recall of a batch of counterfeit "Lipitor" (atorvastatin) sold in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The medicine is used to treat high cholesterol. The counterfeit Lipitor 20mg tablets were recalled in the U.K. on Ju...
October 13 2008 19:01:39.


CARDIOLOGISTS POISED TO GIVE EVERYONE LIPITOR

  The findings were considered to be so important that The New England Journal of Medicine made the study freely available on its Web site one month earlier than the April 8 publication date. Two cholesterol-lowering statin drugsLipitor (atorvastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin)were compared in a clinical trial that involved 4,162 people who had been hospitalized ...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.


Study Says Higher Statin Doses Lower Cholesterol

The risk of having a heart attack, and of dying from one, can be greatly reduced in patients with established heart disease when "bad" cholesterol is lowered well below levels currently recommended, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (April 8, 2004). Harvard Medical School researchers who conducted the study also affirmed that it is genera...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.


Lipito s Safety Again Confirmed in Extensive Analysis of 49 Clinical Trials, Pfizer Says

Important and Timely Information for Physicians Intensively Treating Their Patients\' Cholesterol Patients Taking High Dose (80mg) Lipitor Reported Adverse Events Similar to Patients Taking Low Dose or Placebo NEW YORK, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Results of a recent analysisof 49 Lipitor clinical trials involving mo...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.


Data Sheet

Atorvastatin calcium is a white to off-white crystalline powder that is practically insoluble in aqueous solutions of pH 4 and below. Atorvastatin calcium is very slightly soluble in distilled water, pH 7.4 phosphate buffer, and acetonitrile, slightly soluble in ethanol and freely soluble in methanol.Atorvastatin is a synthetic lipid-lowering agent. Atorvastatin is an inhibit...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.


New Study Showed VYTORIN Superior to Lipitor in Reducing LDL ''Bad'' Cholesterol in Patients with Type II Diabetes at the Recommended Usual Starting Doses Business Wire - Find Articles

Results from a new clinical study conducted in 1,229 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and high cholesterol showed that VYTORIN(R) (ezetimibe/simvastatin) provided superior reduction in LDL "bad" cholesterol compared to Lipitor(R) (atorvastatin) in comparisons of the recommended usual starting doses, according to data presented today at the American Diabetes Association\...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.


HIGH-DOSE LIPITOR

IS HIGH-DOSE LIPITOR FOR YOU? A New Study Showing That 80-mg Lipitor Reduces Heart Attacks Gets Widespread Attention -- But Results Are Not All Positive. High-Dose Lipitor Increases Side Effects Including Liver Injury, and Overall Mortality Is Not Reduced. Dr. Cohen Reviews This Important Study and Explains When and Who Should Use High-Dose Lipitor -- and Who Should Not. Po...
August 05 2008 09:38:33.