There's two promising options to make statins tolerable again.

Since statins first came to market in the late 1980s, muscle aches, weakness, and fatigue have driven many patients to ...

Statins are an important tool to prevent major cardiovascular problems, but many patients stop taking them because of side effects, including muscle pain. However, for more than 90% of patients on ...

Cardiologists have known for more than three decades that statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs can lower levels of ubiquinone. Most people know ubiquinone by the name coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10.

Statins do not appear to cause muscle pain, despite many patients citing the side effect. The cholesterol-lowering drugs are widely prescribed to prevent heart attacks and strokes in at-risk ...

Q. I started taking statins 30 years ago. After several years, I developed terrible muscle pain. Eventually we figured out why and I switched to another medication to control high cholesterol. It was ...

Losing a battle you cannot see is one of the biggest challenges in medicine. And for many Americans, that quiet fight happens ...

LONDON, UK — When prescribing a statin, doctors should be aware of the nocebo effect, judging from an analysis of adverse events on and off active therapy in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes ...

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July 24 -- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- British researchers have discovered a genetic variant that causes some people who take cholesterol-lowering statins to have the muscle weakness called ...