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What is Crestor?

Crestor is a brand name for the drug rosuvastatin, a statin drug used with dietary therapy for hyperlipidemias to reduce elevations in total cholesterol.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
High Cholesterol 147 33 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 39 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight
Hypercholesterolemia 27 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
General health 10 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Support heart health 8 0
Increased lipids in blood (hyperlipidemia) 7 3 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell

See all 233 patients currently taking Crestor

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 7
Moderate
 7
Mild
 6
None
 32

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

Muscle and joint pain 3
Nerve pain (neuralgia) 2
Joints ache (whole body) 1
Nausea 1
Memory problems 1
Joint pain 1
See all 15 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Crestor. See all 12 dosages ►

  daily 5 mg m,w,f 2.5 mg daily 20 mg weekly 30 mg weekly 5 mg daily 10 mg daily 20 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily
  4 Number of Patients: 4 3 Number of Patients: 3 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 50 Number of Patients: 50 97 Number of Patients: 97 49 Number of Patients: 49 26 Number of Patients: 26 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Crestor (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 12   Doctor's advice: 32%
Side effects too severe 11   Side effects too severe: 29%
Expense 10   Expense: 26%
Other 6   Other: 16%
Did not seem to work 4   Did not seem to work: 11%
Course of treatment ended 2   Course of treatment ended: 5%
Change in health plan coverage 2   Change in health plan coverage: 5%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 3%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 3%

See all 38 patients who’ve stopped taking Crestor

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

Currently Taking Crestor

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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 Crestor

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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 Crestor

Always
 40 77%
Usually
 6 12%
Sometimes
 2 4%
Never
 4 8%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Crestor

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 3 6%
A little
 5 10%
Not at all
 44 85%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Crestor

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 1 3%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 8 27%
< $25
 21 70%

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Report created on May 27, 2012.