Conditions: Primary Hypercholesterolemia Dyslipidemia
Keywords: hypercholesterolemia dyslipidemia kowa KRE pitavastatin NK-104
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 830
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of pitavastatin with that of atorvastatin.

Detailed description:
Following a wash-out dietary lead-in period, patients will receive either Atorvastatin or Pitavastatin during 12 weeks, in order to establish the efficacy of pitavastatin in reducing cholesterol levels.

Arms:

Interventions: intervention 1: Pitavastatin intervention 2: Atorvastatin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: