FDA black box warning on the use of 80 mg simvastatin

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Phone:617-632-7753; Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Kashish Goel, M.D.

Overview

Simvastatin 80 mg is the highest approved dose for this drug and it is estimated that approximately 2.1 million patients in the U.S. were prescribes this dose in the year 2010<ref>http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm256581.htm<ref>.