Role of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors after Initiation of Statin Therapy: A PharmLines Inception Cohort Study

Table 1

Equalized statins doses. Doses of statins are combined such that they have approximately the same effect on lowering LDL-C.

EQD	Low^a		Medium^a			High^a
Atorvastatin			10 mg	20 mg		40 mg	80 mg
			5 mg			10 mg	20 mg	40 mg
Cerivastatin	0.1 mg	0.2 mg	0.4 mg	0.8 mg
Fluvastatin	20 mg	40 mg	80 mg
Lovastatin	10 mg	20 mg	40 mg	80 mg
Pitavastatin			1 mg	2 mg		4 mg
Pravastatin	10 mg	20 mg	40 mg	80 mg
Simvastatin	10 mg		20 mg	40 mg	60 mg	80 mg
			10 mg			20 mg	40 mg	80 mg
Rosuvastatin			5 mg			10 mg	20 mg	40 mg

Notes: ^aLow lowers the LDL-C 0-30%, Medium lowers the LDL-C 30-45% and high more than 45% [6, 28–30].