Boca Raton, FL - A new meta-analysis of major pravastatin secondary-prevention trials has shown that the benefits from aspirin and statins are additive and may even be synergistic. The authors of the ...

Prevastatin is prescribed for conditions including high cholesterol in adults and some children. It’s a generic medication that isn’t available as a brand-name drug. The drug comes as an oral tablet.

Objective: To determine pharmacokinetic data for pravastatin in children, since current data are insufficient in this age group. Conclusions: Body surface area and gender did not influence the ...

Statins improve serum lipid parameters in adults who have received a kidney transplant, but data in the pediatric renal transplant population are scarce. For this 12-month cohort study, renal ...

Pravastatin was provided as a gift from Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan). The antibodies used in this study and their commercial sources were as follows: anti-phospho-AMPK (p-Thr172), anti-AMPK, ...

Hunt D, Young P, Simes J, Hague W, Mann S, Owensby D, et al. Benefits of pravastatin on cardiovascular events and mortality in older patients with coronary heart disease are equal to or exceed those ...

Background: An increase in the incidence of cancer among elderly people assigned to pravastatin therapy has been reported in a randomized controlled trial; however, this finding has been attributed to ...