12-week Open-label, Phase IIIb Comparing Efficacy and Safety of Rosuvastatin (CRESTOR™) in Combination with Ezetimibe - GRAVITY

Exclusion Criteria

• - Use of lipid lowering drugs and other prohibited concomitant medications. History of statin-induced myopathy, or serious hypersensitivity reaction to other HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), including rosuvastatin, simvastatin and/or a history of hypersensitivity to any components of ezetimibe.
• - Patients considered to be unstable by their physician after the following events:
• a myocardial infarction, recent episode of unstable angina, myocardial revascularisation [percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery or another revascularisation procedure] or a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or stroke and patients awaiting a planned myocardial revascularisation