Drug Class: What is Crestor

Crestor contains the medicine rosuvastatin, which belongs to a group of medicines known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, or ‘statins’. Crestor is used to modify abnormal levels of fatty substances in the blood called lipids, mainly high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

Crestor acts by lowering the levels of all the bad form of cholesterol and raising the level of the good form of cholesterol (HDL). Crestor is used in combination with a diet plan when changes to diet and exercise alone have failed to lower high cholesterol and triglycerides.