Buy Zocor, Simvastatin

Brand names: Zocor; Simvastatin calcium

Zocor
Simvastatin

- Restriction of cholesterol and fat intake.

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Why is this medication prescribed?
Simvastatin is used with diet changes (restriction of cholesterol and fat intake) to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in your blood. Accumulation of cholesterol and fats along the walls of your arteries (a process known as atherosclerosis) decreases blood flow and, therefore, the oxygen supply to your heart, brain, and other parts of your body. Lowering your blood level of cholesterol and fats may help to prevent heart disease, angina (chest pain), strokes, and heart attacks. This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

About Zocor
Zocor is a HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor, also known as a statin. This class of treatments for high cholesterol is fairly new, and appears to work by blocking a liver enzyme which generates cholesterol. This medication appears to be the most effective in this class of drugs at lowering unhealthy LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol levels, in some cases up to 51%.

Currently, this drug is approved for use in patients with high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia, types IIa & IIb) to reduce the incidence of heart attack and death, as well as decreasing the incidence of stroke, to halt coronary artery disease, to increase HDL (high-density lipoprotein) levels in patients with high cholesterol and those with both high cholesterol and high triglycerides (mixed dyslipidemia), and also to treat hyperlipoproteinemia (type three) and hpyertriglyceridemia.

Other accepted uses include: gallstone prevention (as a combination therapy), lipid disorders occurring with kidney disease, may improve the balance of LDL and HDL in combination with estrogen in post-menopausal women.

This treatment should be considered a last resort. The best way to lower cholesterol is through a program of healthy diet and exercise, and these should be maintained during treatment with Zocor.

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