Examples include atorvastatin (Lipitor), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), lovastatin (Mevacor), and rosuvastatin (Crestor). What Are the Best Treatments for Heart Disease? When angina symptoms worsen despite medications, you may need an invasive procedure in the cardiac catheterization lab...
In this paper, we exploit this fact along with unique physician-level prescription and detailing data for statin drugs to examine the hypothesis that detailing is informative. Our tests are based on a simple model in which detailing impacts physicians' expected match utility of Crestor for ...
Examples include atorvastatin (Lipitor), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), lovastatin (Mevacor), and rosuvastatin (Crestor). What Are the Best Treatments for Heart Disease? When angina symptoms worsen despite medications, you may need an invasive procedure in the cardiac catheteri...
Moreover, although no branded statin product has been shown to be superior to atorvastatin, the top selling individual prescription product in Canada in 2011 was Crestor (AstraZeneca, London, UK)-the only branded statin in Canada without a generic version. Clearly, brand name statin products are...