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pravastatin

pravastatin

1 6.1
A medicine that lowers cholesterol and other fats in the blood
  • noun
  • /ˌprævəˈstætɪn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : pravastatina
  • pravastatin to reduce cholesterol
  • pravastatin lowers
  • drug called pravastatin

Examples

  • Included studies compared statins approved for use in the USA or Europe (atorvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin) with placebo, no therapy, or standard therapy, and had a mean n > 10/group.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Doctors often prescribe pravastatin to patients recovering from heart attacks to help manage their cholesterol levels.

  • After starting on pravastatin, he noticed a significant decrease in his cholesterol levels within weeks.

  • The benefits of pravastatin include lowering cholesterol and potentially reducing the risk of future heart issues.

Synonyms

Pravachol
vspravastatin
  • Specialized
1 8.5

A medicine that lowers cholesterol and doctors often give after a heart attack

is the generic drug name for the same cholesterol lowering medicine

Surface Forms

pravastatin singular
pravastatins plural

Etymology

Pravastatin breaks into prava- and -statin, and the -statin part comes from a root meaning 'to stop' or 'stand', like in static. So pravastatin is one of the 'statin' drugs that help 'stop' the body from making too much cholesterol, and the prava- part simply names this particular medicine.