Conditions: Hypercholesterolemia Dyslipidemia
Keywords: hypercholesterolemia kowa dyslipidemia pitavastatin NK-104 Primary Hypercholesterolemia or Combined Dyslipidemia
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 857
Healthy volunteers: no

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

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Pitavastatin 2 mg once daily arm 2: Simvastatin 20 mg once daily arm 3: Pitavastatin 4 mg once daily arm 4: Simvastatn 40 mg once daily

Interventions: intervention 1: Pitavastatin intervention 2: Simvastatin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Pitavastatin once daily intervention 2: Simvastatin once daily

Protocol document: