It’s used to treat high blood cholesterol. This is when you have too much of a fatty substance called cholesterol in your blood. You may also be prescribed ezetimibe if you cannot take cholesterol-lowering medicines called statins, or if statins do not work for you.
Is ezetimibe the same as simvastatin?
Ezetimibe is a cholesterol absorption inhibitor and simvastatin is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, or statin.
Is Ezetimibe a statin medicine?
Ezetimibe is a non-statin lipid-lowering medication that inhibits absorption of dietary cholesterol by blocking the Niemann-Pick C1-Like 1 protein (NPC1L1).
