Statin Drugs Found to Cause GENETIC Damage to Muscle Tissue!
By Mike Adams, August 22, 2008 | Key concepts: Statin drugs, Statins and Drug side effects
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No surprise here: Statin drugs often cause severe muscle weakness and can even kill people. This latest study unveils a disturbing discovery: GENETIC damage to humans who take statins!
From Genomeweb.com: In a paper appearing in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers from the UK used large genome-wide association studies of individuals taking Merck’s statin Zocor (simvastatin) to uncover genetic variants that are linked to the risk of the statin-induced muscle disease myopathy. Their findings suggest that this painful — and potentially lethal — side effect appears to be intimately linked to variants in a gene called SLCO1B1, which influences statin transport into liver cells.... more
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