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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2014 Feb 4;129(12):1303–1309. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.003589

Table 1.

Definition of statin equivalency12, 17

% LDL-C Reduction Atorvastatin Fluvastatin Lovastatin Pravastatin Rosuvastatin Simvastatin
10–20% ≤20 mg ≤10 mg ≤10 mg ≤5 mg
20–30% 40 mg 20 mg 20 mg 10 mg
30–40% ≤10 mg 80 mg 40 mg 40 mg ≤5 mg 20 mg
40–50% 20–40 mg 80 mg 80 mg 10 mg 40–80 mg
50–60% 80 mg 20–40 mg