Description
Rossta belongs to a group of medicines called statins. Rossta is used to correct the levels of fatty substances in the blood called lipids, the most common of which is cholesterol.
Indications
Treatment of hypercholesterolaemia
Adults, adolescents and children aged over 10 years with primary hypercholesterolaemia (type IIa including heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia) or mixed dyslipidaemia (type IIb) as an adjunct to diet when response to diet and other non-pharmacological treatments (e.g. exercise, weight reduction) is inadequate. Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia as an adjunct to diet, as well as with other lipid-lowering treatment (eg LDL apheresis) or when this treatment is not appropriate.
Prevention of cardiovascular events
Prevention of major cardiovascular events in patients who are estimated to have a high risk for a first cardiovascular event, as an adjunct to correction of other risk factors.
Subject to medical prescription.
Concentration and pharmaceutical form: 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg film-coated tablets
