Conditions: Hypercholesterolemia
Keywords: Hypercholesterolaemia
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 229
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Evaluate the proportion of hyperlipaemic persons with known coronary heart disease achieving ldl-c goal as defined by the national cholesterol education program (NCEP) adult treatment panel (ATP) III guidelines

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: simvastatin (+) ezetimibe intervention 2: Comparator: atorvastatin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: simvastatin (+) ezetimibe 10/20mg, tablet, once daily, 12wks(sub group:24wks) intervention 2: atorvastatin 10mg, tablet, once daily, 12wks(sub group:24wks)

Protocol document: