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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16795202 |
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- <p>Atrovastatin is medication used to lower cholesterol and triglycerides (fats) levels to help prevent<br>prevent heart disease, angina (chest pain), strokes, and heart attacks. Atorvastatin calcium belongs<br>to a class of medications called HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins). Atorvastatin calcium<br>works by slowing the production of cholesterol in the body to decrease the amount<br>of cholesterol that may build up on the walls of the arteries and block blood flow to the heart,<br>brain, and other parts of the body. Atorvastatin is also used to lower the amount of fatty substances<br>such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ('bad cholesterol') and triglycerides in the blood<br>and to increase the amount of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ('good cholesterol') in<br>the blood. Atorvastatin may also be used to decrease the amount of cholesterol and other fatty<br>substances in the blood in children and teenagers 10 to 17 years of age who have familial<br>heterozygous hypercholesterolemia (an inherited condition in which cholesterol cannot be<br>removed from the body normally). </p>