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What is pravastatin used for?

Updated: 9/17/2019
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Pravastatin is a drug and a member of the statin family. This drug, like other statins, attempts to lower cholesterol by preventing the liver from making cholesterol. Statins inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, which is an enzyme responsible for the synthesis of cholesterol.

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