The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.

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A massive review of 23 randomized trials found that statins do not cause the vast majority of side effects listed on their ...

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, more than 50 million people were taking medications such as ...

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A new study found statin use is associated with reduced disease activity and inflammation in people with systemic lupus ...

More than 30 years after the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study showed that statins save lives, their full public health potential remains unrealised. Statins are underused worldwide, and as a ...

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Product information leaflets for statins should be changed, because they don’t cause the majority of the possible side effects currently listed, say researchers. The University of Oxford’s Cholesterol ...

A massive analysis of randomized trials suggests that most side effects listed on statin labels may not be caused by the drugs at all. Cardiovascular disease kills about 20 million people worldwide ...

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, over 50 million people were taking medications such as atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin or lovastatin to control ...