{"id":1385,"date":"2009-12-16T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fda-advisers-recommend-expanded-use-of-rosuvastatin\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:09","slug":"fda-advisers-recommend-expanded-use-of-rosuvastatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/12\/16\/fda-advisers-recommend-expanded-use-of-rosuvastatin\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Advisers Recommend Expanded Use of Rosuvastatin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jK6EmpbL8swxcfV5tmu4EL4YfU0AD9CK0S1O0\">Associated Press reports <\/a>that, based on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/nejm\/content\/full\/359\/21\/2195?searchTerm=jupiter\">JUPITER<\/a> study, an FDA panel of advisers has recommended expansion of rosuvastatin. The FDA\u00a0is expected\u00a0to decide whether to act on this recommendation in 2010. According to the\u00a0report, Astra Zeneca will develop an approach to\u00a0use rosuvastatin in all patients at risk for heart disease based on\u00a0hypertension and family history. This is beyond the group of patients that were studied in JUPITER which only assessed older patients with hsCRP above 2mg\/dL. Do you agree with this approach, should rosuvastatin use be expanded to all at risk without hsCRP testing? How will you implement in your practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that, based on the\u00a0JUPITER study, an FDA panel of advisers has recommended expansion of rosuvastatin. The FDA\u00a0is expected\u00a0to decide whether to act on this recommendation in 2010. According to the\u00a0report, Astra Zeneca will develop an approach to\u00a0use rosuvastatin in all patients at risk for heart disease based on\u00a0hypertension and family history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}