statins
3 stories tagged "statins"
Drugs & FDA
For Years the Muscle Aches Were Called a Nocebo Effect. A McMaster Lab Found Statins Injuring the Muscle Cell Itself.
An estimated 7 to 29 percent of statin users report muscle pain. The flagship trial called most of it a placebo response. In mouse and human muscle cells, a McMaster team has now traced a cholesterol-independent pathway by which statins damage muscle directly.
CancerChemo-Surviving Ovarian Cancer Cells Release Fructose to Loosen the Tumor Next Door
The same cholesterol-starving mechanism that loosens tumor cells implicates statins, the pills 39 million Americans take, yet the researchers who found it say keep taking them anyway.
Metabolic & WeightFor Forty Years He Said the Standard Cholesterol Target Was Wrong. A Computer Finally Agreed.
A Northwestern model projects that the little-used apoB test would prevent more heart attacks and strokes than the LDL number your doctor chases. And non-HDL, a number already printed free on your standard lab report, beat LDL too. No trial has tested any of it on a patient.