IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ABOUT CRESTOR TABLETS
- CRESTOR is not right for everyone.
- Do not take CRESTOR if you have liver problems or are allergic to rosuvastatin or any of the ingredients in CRESTOR.
- Call your healthcare provider right away if you have unexplained muscle pain or weakness, especially with fever; have muscle problems that do not go away even after your healthcare provider told you to stop taking CRESTOR; feel unusually tired; or have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine, or yellowing of skin or eyes. These could be signs of rare but serious side effects.
- Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver before starting treatment and if you have symptoms of liver problems while taking CRESTOR.
- CRESTOR may cause you to have protein and blood in your urine.
- Elevated blood sugar levels have been reported with statins, including CRESTOR.
- The most common side effects may include headache, nausea, muscle aches, weakness, and constipation.
- Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. CRESTOR may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how CRESTOR works.
- Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant or may become pregnant. CRESTOR can pass in breast milk and may harm your baby. Do not breastfeed while taking CRESTOR.
- Talk to your healthcare provider for more information about CRESTOR.
Approved Uses
- Prescription CRESTOR is used:
- to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular (CV) events, such as death from cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke or the need for procedures to improve blood flow to the heart called arterial revascularization in adults who do not have known heart disease but do have certain additional risk factors
- CRESTOR is used along with diet to:
- lower the level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) or “bad” cholesterol in adults with primary hyperlipidemia
- slow the buildup of fatty deposits (plaque) in the walls of blood vessels
- treat adults and children 8 years of age and older with high blood cholesterol due to heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), an inherited condition that causes high levels of LDL-C
- along with other cholesterol lowering treatments or alone if such treatments are unavailable in adults and children 7 years of age and older with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), an inherited condition that causes high levels of LDL-C
- to treat adults with primary dysbetalipoproteinemia (an inherited condition that causes high levels of cholesterol and fat) or hypertriglyceridemia
Please read the Patient Information and full Prescribing Information.
You may report side effects related to AstraZeneca products.
References:
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Reference:
^ Data on File, US-62651. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
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