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Please describe the medication: lovastatin?
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Cholesterol lowering: Lovastatin is one of the cholesterol lowering statin medications. In this class it is one of the older and less potent drugs but is still useful in many people.
Answered 1/26/2015
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A statin: It is a member of the cholesterol lowering class called statins also known as hmg coenzyme reductase inhibitors . They inhibit an enzyme needed in the production of cholesterol.
Answered 3/28/2016
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