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Cost. Branded statins make up a signicicant part of prescribing budgets. Rosuvastatin is a proprietary branded statin and is expensive. Generic Simvastatin is now available and prescribers are being instructed to change patients on to the cheaper drugs. Simvastatin is effective and for primary prevention ie to lower cholesterol in those who have not had a cardiac event it is likely to be entirely adequate therapy.

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Q: Why change from rosuvastatin to simvastatin this is an instrution from Liverpool pct?
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