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What is Lovastatin?

Lovastatin is an antilipemic drug used as an adjunct to dietary therapy to decrease elevated serum total and LDL-cholesterol concentrations in primary hypercholesterolemia; and for primary prevention of coronary artery disease.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
High Cholesterol 58 11 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 14 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Hypercholesterolemia 14 1 Efficacy_none
General health 10 1 Efficacy_moderate
Hyperlipidemia 7 1 Efficacy_major
Increased lipids in blood (hyperlipidemia) 4 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 1
Mild
 2
None
 13

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Lovastatin

Headaches 1
Pain in left leg 1

Reported Dosages

  40 mg every other week 20 mg m,w,f 10 mg daily 20 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily 80 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 18 Number of Patients: 18 34 Number of Patients: 34 37 Number of Patients: 37 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Lovastatin (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 9   Doctor's advice: 39%
Did not seem to work 6   Did not seem to work: 26%
Other 6   Other: 26%
Side effects too severe 4   Side effects too severe: 17%
Expense 1   Expense: 4%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 4%

See all 23 patients who’ve stopped taking Lovastatin

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Lovastatin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking Lovastatin

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Lovastatin

Always
 13 76%
Usually
 3 18%
Sometimes
 1 6%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Lovastatin

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 2 12%
A little
 1 6%
Not at all
 14 82%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Lovastatin

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 2 17%
< $25
 10 83%

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Report created on May 23, 2012.