Simvastatin 20 mg film-coated tablets

Film-coated tablet - light pink, round [diameter 8.1 mm] and biconvex film-coated tablets with the inscription “A” debossed on one side and “02” on the other side.

Therapeutic indications:
Hypercholesterolaemia
• Treatment of primary hypercholesterolaemia or mixed dyslipidaemia, as an adjunct to diet, when response to diet and other non-pharmacological treatments (e.g exercise, weight reduction) is inadequate.
• Treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) as an adjunct to diet and other lipid-lowering treatments (e.g. LDL-apheresis) or if such treatments are not appropriate.

Cardiovascular prevention
• Reduction of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in patients with manifest atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus, with either normal or increased cholesterol levels, as an adjunct to correction of other risk factors and other cardioprotective therapy

Features

Nature and contents of container:
• Simvastatin film-coated tablets are available in PVC/PE/PVdC/aluminium blisters and white opaque round HDPE container with white opaque polypropylene closure.

Pack sizes:
• For blister pack: 10, 14, 20, 28, 30, 50, 56, 60, 84, 90, 98 and 100 film-coated tablets.
• For HDPE Bottle pack: 20 mg: 30, 50, 56, 60, 90, 98, 100 and 1000 (for hospital or dose dispensing use only) film-coated tablets.

Special precautions for storage:
• This medicinal product does not require any special storage conditions.