Publication: Comparative Study on Effectiveness and Safety of Atorvastatin with Rosuvastatin in Hyperlipidemic Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal
| creativeworkseries.issn | ISSN (Print) : 1993-2979 | ISSN (Online) : 1993-2987 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Raut, Binod | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paudel, Nimesh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shrestha, Deepti | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bhosekar, Anant | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-01T05:33:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-04-01T05:33:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | Binod Raut1, Nimesh Paudel2, Deepti Shrestha3, Anant Bhosekar1 1Department of Pharmacology, Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 3Department of Pharmacology, Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal | |
| dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT Introduction: Hyperlipidemia is one of the most contributing factors to coronary heart diseases. Statins have become standard medicine in clinical practice to reduce total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein and to increase high density lipoprotein cholesterol. This study is conducted to compare the effectiveness and safety of atorvastatin with rosuvastatin in hyperlipidemic patients. Methods: This is a prospective observational study involving 150 patients conducted in the Department of Internal Medicine of Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital from July 2019 to March 2020. Patients newly diagnosed with hyperlipidemia were enrolled. Patients that were prescribed with 10 mg of atorvastatin and 5 mg of rosuvastatin by the treating physician once daily for 6 weeks were divided into two groups. Data was recorded in the customized proforma and the SPSS package version 20 was used for analysis. Results: Patients that were prescribed with atorvastatin were put in group I and those prescribed with rosuvastatin were included in group II with 75 participants in each group. The mean age of the patients were 50.56± 10.08 years in group I and 52.45±10.20 years in group II with male to female ratio of 3:1. The mean BMI of group I was 25.36±1.74 and that of group II was 26.48±2.21 before therapy. There was a significant main effect of duration (F1,74=401.02, p<0.001) on the TG and TC levels (F1,74=1134.23, p<0.001) as well as (F1,74=614.99, p<0.001) on the LDL and HDL levels (F1,74=146.38, p<0.001). Conclusion: Rosuvastatin was significantly more effective than atorvastatin in reducing levels of TG, TC and LDL-C. Rosuvastatin also significantly increased the level of HDL. Keywords: Atorvastatin, hyperlipidemia, rosuvastatin | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/5548 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Medicine | |
| dc.subject | Atorvastatin | |
| dc.subject | hyperlipidemia | |
| dc.subject | rosuvastatin | |
| dc.title | Comparative Study on Effectiveness and Safety of Atorvastatin with Rosuvastatin in Hyperlipidemic Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.article.type | Original Article | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 37 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 32 | |
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