Vol. 32 (Suppl 2) 2011 Neuro endocrinology letters

Effect of rosuvastatin treatment on cholesterol efflux from human macrophages.

OBJECTIVES: One of the positive effects of rosuvastatin is an increase in HDL cholesterol (HDL-C). An increase in HDL-C is considered as one of the positive effects of this type of statin, although it does not necessarily correspond to the actual reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) rate. We analyzed the influence of statin induced chang.....