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Zocor Information

What's inside Zocor

Zocor Active Ingredients: simvastatin, details.
Zocor Dosages & Strengths
Strength Format Route Strength Class
Zocor 80 mg tablet oral 1.0 each OTC
Zocor 5 mg tablet oral 1.0 each OTC
Zocor 10 mg tablet oral 1.0 each OTC
Zocor 20 mg tablet oral 1.0 each OTC
Zocor 40 mg tablet oral 1.0 each OTC

Recent Zocor Side Effects

Posted by corve2 7 days ago
I am a 58 year old female Who has been taking Simvaststin for 16 months . I have been increasingly bothered with mainly nigh...

Posted by pianoman2 7 days ago
I am 50 years old. Two years ago was diagnosed with very high LDL and low HDL. I told my doctor then that I did not want to g...

Posted by tyleen about 1 month ago
I took Zocor for 9 months after I had a heart attack. After about 8 months I began having sever muscle spasm in my legs. I ...


Zocor in the News

Lipitor's pitchman gets axed - International Herald Tribune
Pfizer turned to Jarvik because Lipitor, the world's best-selling drug, is losing market share to a generic version of a competing cholesterol drug, Zocor, ...
Mon Mar 10 12:13:19 -0400 2008

Drug Makers Increased Prices By Average Of 7.4% In 2007 For ... - Medical News Today (press release)
The drug with the largest price increase -- 27.7% -- was Sanofi-Aventis' sleep aid Ambien, while the price of Merck's cholesterol drug Zocor did not change. ...
Thu Mar 06 14:04:00 -0500 2008

Drug Makers Increased Prices by Average of 7.4% in 2007 for ... - Kaiser network.org
The drug with the largest price increase -- 27.7% -- was Sanofi-Aventis' sleep aid Ambien, while the price of Merck's cholesterol drug Zocor did not change. ...
Wed Mar 05 11:35:38 -0500 2008


Zocor Chemical Information

simvastatin - A lipid-lowering agent derived synthetically from a fermentation product of the fungus Aspergillus terreus. Hydrolyzed in vivo to an active metabolite, simvastatin competitively inhibits hepatic hydroxymethyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, the enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of HMG-CoA to mevalonate, a key step in cholesterol synthesis. This agent lowers plasma cholesterol and lipoprotein levels, and modulates immune responses by suppressing MHC II (major histocompatibility complex II) on interferon gamma-stimulated, antigen-presenting cells such as human vascular endothelial cells. (NCI04)



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