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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.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Other 10 0
Cholesterol high 7 0
General health 4 1
CONTROL CHOLESTEROL 2 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
1 100%

Dosages

  daily 2.5 mg daily 5 mg daily 10 mg daily 20 mg daily 40 mg daily 50 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 9 Number of Patients: 9 5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Crestor (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Side effects too severe
1 100% Side effects too severe: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Crestor

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Crestor

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
3
4
8

Stopped Taking Crestor

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

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
1 100%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
1 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
1 100%

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Report created on November 23, 2009.