作者: Reagan H Bradford , Charles L Shear , Athanassios N Chremos , Carlos Dujovne , Maria Downton
DOI: 10.1001/ARCHINTE.151.1.43
关键词: Surgery 、 Medicine 、 Clinical trial 、 Placebo 、 Cholesterol 、 Internal medicine 、 Lovastatin 、 Adverse effect 、 Liver function tests 、 Randomized controlled trial 、 Chemotherapy
摘要: In the Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin (EXCEL) Study, a multicenter, double-blind, diet- and placebo-controlled trial, we evaluated efficacy safety lovastatin in 8245 patients with moderate hypercholesterolemia. Patients were randomly assigned to receive placebo or at dosage 20 mg once daily, 40 twice daily for 48 weeks. produced sustained, dose-related ( P Arch Intern Med . 1991;151:43-49)