Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

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So let's get into the drug of the day today.

That is Rosuvastatin or Crestor.

I wanted to follow up after the previous episode with a torvastatin.

I thought it might be an easy thing to do.

If you're studying, preparing for cardiovascular topics, exams, boards, that type of thing, kind of keeping

these podcasts together a little bit. So with that said, Rosuvastatin, brand name, Crestor,

it is a statin medication, and it lowers cholesterol. Classification is an HMG-CA reductase inhibitor. And again, that's the

enzyme that really controls the speed or controls the process, primarily of that production of

cholesterol. Ultimately, what are we managing by lowering cholesterol?

We're reducing risk for like atherosclerosis,

cardiovascular disease, heart attack, strokes.

We're trying to prevent those things, basically by lowering cholesterol.

All right.

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