A new way of determining heart disease risk may result in millions fewer Americans getting prescriptions for statins, ...

Cholesterol-lowering statins such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) are among the most widely prescribed drugs on the market today. Their purpose is to lower blood ...

of the new statin rosuvastatin (Crestor; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, Waltham, MA) vs. atorvastatin and other statins indicate that treatment with rosuvastatin produces higher low-density ...

Crestor has an advantage over other Statins in lowering LDL cholesterol and raising HDL cholesterol, which has been proved through several clinical studies published in a number of medical journals.