How many drugs treat Familial hypercholesterolemia?

Drug Landscape tracks 2 marketed treatments for Familial hypercholesterolemia (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Familial hypercholesterolemia — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Familial hypercholesterolemia (disease) competitive landscape: 2 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Familial hypercholesterolemia, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	Line of therapy	First approval
Livalo	PITAVASTATIN	Kowa Co	HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor	3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase		2009-01-01
Livalo	Livalo	Kowa Research Institute, Inc.		Nuclear receptor subfamily 4 group A member 2, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, Retinoic acid receptor RXR-alpha

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

Kowa Co · 1 drug in Familial hypercholesterolemia
Kowa Research Institute, Inc. · 1 drug in Familial hypercholesterolemia

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Drug Landscape (2026). Familial hypercholesterolemia — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/familial-hypercholesterolemia. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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