Even before its official launch, Warner-Lambert's lipid-lowering agentLipitor (atorvastatin) had captured 3.3% of all new prescriptions written for all five HMG CoA reductase inhibitors in the USA (ie Merck & Co's Zocor [simvastatin] and Mevacor [lovastatin], Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pravachol [pravastatin], Novartis' Lescol [fluvastatin] and Lipitor), according to Hemant Shah of HKS & Co.
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