New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- More than 140,000 bottles of a cholesterol-lowering drug are being recalled across the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed this week.

Officials have said that some of the pills might not dissolve properly after being swallowed, a flaw that could reduce the medicine's effectiveness for patients who rely on it daily.

The affected drug is Atorvastatin Calcium, the generic form of Lipitor, which is consumed by roughly 39 million Americans, according to Dr Tamanna Singh of the Cleveland Clinic. In a September podcast, she also stated that adults over 40 make up the bulk of those prescriptions.

Federal records show that the pills were manufactured by Alkem Laboratories and distributed by Asce...