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The drug of the day today is fluvastatin.

Brand name of this medication is Lescal.

This medication is used to lower cholesterol,

primarily with a focus on LDL. And it works. It is a statin medication. It works by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase. If you remember, that is a very important enzyme that is responsible for

essentially the production of cholesterol and LDL. Dosing of this medication, so you may not be

terribly familiar with fluvastatin because it's not a commonly used statin.

The big reason being is it is not a high-intensity statin.

So if we need, if we've got patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease or they've had a heart

attack, stroke, things of that nature, and we need more aggressive cholesterol lowering therapy,

fluvastatin is not going to be it. And so you're much more likely to see a torvastatin and

rosuvastatin used instead of fluvastatin. With that said, I have seen it,

definitely occasionally used. It does cover low intensity LDL lowering as well as moderate

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