LI Lihua, et al. Clinical comparative study of simvastatin, xuezhikang and pravastatin in common doses on primary hyperlipidemia. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (2):278-281(2005)
LI Lihua, et al. Clinical comparative study of simvastatin, xuezhikang and pravastatin in common doses on primary hyperlipidemia. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (2):278-281(2005) DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.2005.02.033.
Clinical comparative study of simvastatin, xuezhikang and pravastatin in common doses on primary hyperlipidemia
xuezhikang and pravastatin in patients with primary hyperlipidemia.Methods:Sixty patients were randomly divided into three groups
simvastatin 20mg were taken once a day at night;provastatin 10mg were taken once a day at night;xuezhikang 0.6g were taken twice a day in the morning and at night.Blood samples were taken before and 4 weeks
8 weeks
12 weeks after the treatment.Results:In simvastatin group:the serum levels of total cholesterol(TC)
low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL C) decreased markedly at the end of 4 weeks compared with those of the baseline ( P <0.05).Significant differences in TC
LDL C were found between the end of 4 weeks and 12 weeks ( P <0.05).In pravastatin group:there is a noticeable drop in TC
LDL C at the end of 4 weeks
but no further obvious drop between 4 weeks and 12 weeks.Concentrations of TG and HDL C were not changed obviously in both groups after 12 weeks of treatment compared with the baseline ( P >0.05).In xuezhikang group:after 4 weeks of treatment
TC
TG
LDL C reduced markedly( P <0.05).Further significant lowering of TC
LDL C were noted after 12 weeks as compared with 4 weeks ( P <0.05).Only HDL C was not changed after the treatment in contrast with the baseline ( P >0.05).From the change rates
we can see after 8 weeks
12 weeks of treatment the level of LDL C drcreased more significantly in simvastatin group (40%
45%) than in xuezhikang (31%
36%) and provastatin (31%
35%) ( P <0.05);however
the level of TG lowered more obviously in xuezhikang group (33%
35%) than in simvastatin(25%
26%) and provastatin (18%
19%)( P <0.05).At the end of 12 weeks
the total effective rates of decreasing TC
TG
HDL C have no significance among three groups ( P >0.05).Conclusion:The clinical effects of simvastatin
xunzhikang
provastatin on primary hyperlipidemia were equal among the three groups
but the time is different about when they take great effects respectively.Next
LDL C lowering effect of simvastatin was significant.Finally
xuezhikang was the best in reducing TG among the three groups and it has a relatively good economic effectiveness.