Zocor

Learn about the side effects and complications caused by Zocor Oral, a statin drug used to prevent your heart disease risk.

Zocor helps lower cholesterol by blocking the production of it in the body. This medication reduces low-density lipoprotein cholesterol- sometimes called LDL and the total cholesterol present in the blood.

Zocor and Lipitor are both drugs used to treat high cholesterol. While very effective and safe for use in most people, both drugs do carry the risk of some side effects and they are not appropriate for everyone.

There are five types of drugs used for treating high cholesterol.

Zocor side effects are very mild, if not rare, making it the perfect drug in the fight against high cholesterol.

A comparison of the way Lipitor and Zocor work in your body, the way they are dosed, and the common and serious side effects.

This is an overview of the FDA approved drug, Zocor, used to treat high cholesterol.

High cholesterol affects over 101 million Americans, many of whom require medications to control their levels. The first of the "statin" drugs is now available generically, which can save these consumers big bucks.

Zocor has been effective in helping to reduce my high cholesterol to levels that are much more acceptable considering many of the serious risk factors that I have like diabetes, heart attacks, heart disease and kidney failure.