pravastatin
- n an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks
- Additionally, half took daily doses of the cholesterol drug pravastatin, while the other half took a placebo.
- Estrogen lowers bad cholesterol too, but not as much as pravastatin does.
- After investigators showed that both simvastatin and pravastatin (Pravachol) could cut the number of first heart attacks among those with high cholesterol, doctors assumed that all .