Get Healthy Stay Healthy: Beware: Cholesterol-lowering STATINS - The STATIN side effects include muscle pain and weakness! The muscle-related side effects can even be deadly!

2/19/08

Beware: Cholesterol-lowering STATINS - The STATIN side effects include muscle pain and weakness! The muscle-related side effects can even be deadly!

Statins, the popular drugs used to lower cholesterol, known by such names as Lipitor, Zocor, Pavacol, and Mevacor, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in developed countries.

But for some patients, statins cause muscle problem side effects, including muscle weakness and pain. And, in rare cases, these side effects of statins can escalate to debilitating and even life-threatening damage.

Now a study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), helps explain these statin side effects.

Published in the December, 2007, issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, the results of the study offer the first evidence that a gene known as atrogin-1 is activated by statins and results in the highly significant statin-related muscle weakness / pain / wasting / toxicity / etc. - Click to Read More.... (As reported by Science Daily)

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