Can pravachol and vytorin be taken at the same time?
I don’t find much saying not to take at the same time , but I would only take Pravachol. After nearly two years of waiting, the results came out on Monday on the long-awaited heart drug Vytorin — and the news wasn’t good. Vytorin’s manufacturers, Merck and Schering-Plough, announced that while the drug reduced levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol, in a group of 750 patients, the medication, which has been on the market since 2004, had little effect on the buildup of plaque in the arteries, a harbinger of heart attack and stroke. More Related Statins to Treat Inflammation May Halve Heart-Attack Risk Doctor’s Orders Self-Medicating With AIDS Drugs To many experts, the results were both a surprise and a warning. “The fact that the trial showed a huge LDL reduction, and that things were still going the wrong way [in terms of plaque buildup] is stunning,” says Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and an outspoken critic of the delay in the release of t