rhabdomyolysis

• “Myopathy is marked by muscle pain and weakness, and in a serious form called rhabdomyolysis can damage the kidneys.”

  The Wall Street Journal: FDA Urges Limits on Dosages of Zocor

• “All of the statins have been linked with muscle injury and rare cases of muscle breakdown, a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which occurs in about five of every 100,000 patients taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.”

  USA Today: Simvastatin can damage muscles in high doses

• “Muscle pain and weakness, a condition called rhabdomyolysis, is actually the most common side effect of statin drugs, which is thought to occur because statins activate the atrogin-1 gene, which plays a key role in muscle atrophy. [xiii]”

  The Huffington Post: The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health

• “Higher statin doses have also been linked to an increased risk of a life-threatening form of muscle breakdown called rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to permanent kidney damage, coma and even death.”

  Consumer Reports: Muscle pain from taking Zocor or another statin? Check your dose

• “During a lab analysis 22 hours after admission the doctors found the patient to be breaking down and releasing into his blood huge amounts of muscle protein, a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which if severe enough can lead to kidney failure.”

  I’ll see your ketoacidosis and raise you a renal failure | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

• “It argues other statins are safer because Crestor has the highest rate of a side effect called rhabdomyolysis, in which muscle cells break down.”

  News - latimes.com

• “On Sunday, Haynesworth revealed that he had been diagnosed with a muscle condition called rhabdomyolysis, which if it spreads to the bloodstream can cause kidney failure.”

  Sporting News Feed RSS

• “When skeletal muscle is damaged, it breaks down (lyses) - a condition called rhabdomyolysis”

  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories

• “The second, initiated by the family who suspected he was tortured while being interrogated, found that Kugan had died from a condition known as rhabdomyolysis, a rapid break-down of skeletal muscle tissue, due to blunt force trauma which led to kidney failure.”

  Planet Malaysia

• “Muscle pain and weakness, a condition called rhabdomyolysis, is the most common side effect of statin drugs, which is thought to occur because statins activate the gene atrogin-1 gene, which plays a key role in muscle atrophy.”

  foodconsumer.org

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