A drug called Lovastatin, discovered in a red mold in 1978, worked better than an earlier version and became the first 'statin' medicine approved to help lower cholesterol in people.

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Akira Endo: Father of Statins

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2024 Aug

The study praises Akira Endo for discovering the first statin, which supports the idea that he played a key role in creating drugs like lovastatin, but it doesn’t go into details about how strong it is compared to others or when it was approved.

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Akira Endo: Father of Statins

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DOI: 10.7759/cureus.68198

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Lovastatin was the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug. Scientists from Merck and a researcher named Akira Endo found it in different fungi, and it was approved by the FDA in 1987 after tests showed it safely lowered bad cholesterol in people.

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A scientist named Akira Endo found the first statin in a fungus back in 1971, and that discovery led to the cholesterol-lowering medicines millions of people take today.

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