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. 2020 May 16;19:67. doi: 10.1186/s12933-020-01037-0

Table 2.

Dose of statin by subtype based on the initial prescription

Statin subtype Mean (SD)
DDD of statin per prescription Cumulative DDD of statin per prescription
Total (5273) 0.667 (0.25) 11.58 (86.99)
Atorvastatin (1071) 0.61 (0.27) 13.09 (33.66)
Fluvastatin (59) 1.15 (0.31) 8.83 (12.79)
Lovastatin (771) 0.444 (0) 4.19 (5.71)
Pitavastatin (27) 1 (0) 13.41 (19.3)
Pravastatin (391) 0.61 (0.43) 6.32 (11.48)
Rosuvastatin (243) 1.03 (0.2) 10.84 (15.22)
Simvastatin (2711) 0.71 (0.19) 13.95 (119.13)