Lipitor Generic Atorvastatin
Lipitor Generic Atorvastatin used to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in your blood. This medicine is taken with diet and other precautions. Cholesterol and fats are accumulated along the walls of your blood vessels, reducing blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain and heart to other parts of the body. Atorvastatin helps in lowering cholesterol and fats in the blood to prevent attacks of chest pain of angina heart disease and heart attacks. Lipitor may be prescribed for other uses.
We all are aware of a very important term named as ‘Cholesterol’ and we always get frightened with this term as most of the time we hear some kind of bad news related to this topic. So, we try to avoid the foods that contain high cholesterol. It is important to know that the cholesterol is essential for our body and is a fatty substance, which is found in food. Our body contains about 100 g of cholesterol. It is useful in the production of some hormones, creation of bile juice, formation of cell membranes etc. But if cholesterol is excess in our body, it can be very harmful for the body causing serious health issues.
And so Lipitor i.e. Atorvastatin drug is used to control such situations. Atorvastatin is an oral drug that lowers the level of cholesterol in the blood. It belongs to a class of drugs referred to as ‘Statins’, which includes Lovastatin Mevacor, Simvastatin Zocor, Fluvastatin Lescol and Pravastatin Pravachol. All Statins including Atorvastatin prevent the production of cholesterol by the liver by blocking the enzyme that makes cholesterol HMG-CoA reductase. They lower total blood cholesterol as well as LDL cholesterol levels. LDL cholesterol is believed to be the bad cholesterol that is primarily responsible for the development of coronary artery disease.
Lowering LDL cholesterol levels retards progression and may even reverse coronary artery disease. Unlike the other drugs in this class, Atorvastatin also can reduce the concentration of triglycerides in the blood. High blood concentrations of triglycerides also have been associated with coronary artery disease. Atorvastatin was approved by the FDA in December of 1996
