Table 3.

Effect of rosuvastatin (Ros) and atorvastatin (Ator) on the biochemical parameters of rats at week 10

Animal group	Sham (II) (n=8)		HCD (III) (n=8)		HCD + ROS (IV) (n=8)		HCD + ATOR (V) (n=8)
	Before	After	Before	After	Before	After	Before	After
Urea (mg/dl)	50.37 ± 7.00	53.00 ± 6.76	44.00 ± 8.71	47.75 ± 6.54	45.87 ± 7.88	50.87 ± 6.55	45.50 ± 10.65	52.37 ± 6.58
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.44 ± 0.10	0.41 ± 0.03	0.47 ± 0.13	0.45 ± 0.10	0.46 ± 0.04	0.34 ± 0.07	0.47 ± 0.22	0.37 ± 0.06
Calcium (mg/dl)	8.17 ± 0.92	8.56 ± 0.96	8.9 ± 0.74	8.97 ± 0.89	9.17 ± .94	8.18 ± 0.61	8.59 ± 0.45	8.40 ± 0.71
Phosphorus (mg/dl)	5.07 ± 0.85	5.45 ± 1.08	5.45 ± 0.96	5.32 ± 1.00	5.38 ± 0.58	5.33 ± 0.07	5.40 ± 0.74	5.32 ± 1.01

Sham, rats fed with normal diet+water gavage; HCD, rats fed with hypercholesterolemic diet; HCD+Ros, rats fed with hypercholesterolemic diet+Ros (20 mg/kg); HCD+Ator, rats fed with hypercholesterolemic diet+Ator (20 mg/kg). Values are expressed as the means±SD. No differences between groups before and after treatment