In the large clinical trials that proved the benefits of statins, about a quarter of people complained of myalgia, although ...

An acute necrotising myopathy is a distinct form of uncommon muscle disease characterised by the rapid advancement of ...

It's said 86 million Americans have high cholesterol. Here's an important heads-up for statin users in two U.S. regions.

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The patient’s own doctors couldn’t agree on a cause. One said asthma. Another implicated her age, then 71. A third blamed ...

Most guidance for management of hypercholesterolemia apply across patient demographics and characteristics. However, there ...

Improving Global Outcomes organization's updates to its 2024 guidelines expand SGLT2 inhibitor use and refine chronic kidney ...

A proposed NHS polypill program for everyone over 50 could significantly reduce heart attacks and strokes, offering a simple, ...

Dear D.M.: A colonoscopy is both a screening tool for cancer and a way to prevent cancer by removing polyps before they can ...

It has been a long-standing theory that statin-associated muscle pain (myalgia) is caused, or at least partly contributed by, a reduction in CoQ10 levels in muscle mitochondria. One of the main ...

I am a 71-year-old male who is a nonsmoker and a social drinker. Other than a statin, I am not taking any medications. I have ...

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