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Statins Increase Peripheral Neuropathy Risk

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Statins are among the biggest selling drugs in the United States. Millions of Americans pop these cholesterol-lowering pills every day to reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. Unfortunately, statins have been associated with a wide range of side effects, including headaches, confusion, liver damage, memory loss, and elevated risk of type 2...

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Association of statin use with cataracts: a propensity score-matched analysis.

Cataracts are more likely to occur in individuals taking statin drugs.

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Statins May Increase Parkinson’s Disease Risk

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Statin drugs are supposed to control your cholesterol levels. Manufacturers claim that statins reduce your risk of having stroke and heart attack, although actually that is questionable. Preventing myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular attack is the main reason millions of Americans take them. However, the findings of a...

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Statin Use Increases Cataract Risk

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If you walk into your doctor's office with a high cholesterol number, there is a great chance that you will walk out with a statin drug. Having an avalanche of cholesterol floating in your blood increases your risk of developing stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, skeletal muscle damage, coronary heart disease, and heart attacks. Statins ar...

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Treatment with statins and peripheral neuropathy: results of 36-months a prospective clinical and neurophysiological follow-up.

​Long-term use of statins may facilitate the onset of peripheral neuropathy.

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Statin-associated peripheral neuropathy: review of the literature.

​People on statins may have a higher propensity of developing peripheral neuropathy.

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Statins may facilitate Parkinson's disease: Insight gained from a large, national claims database.

​​A significant elevation in Parkinson's disease risk is associated with the use of statin drugs.

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Statins Promote Skeletal Muscle Damage

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Millions of people take statins to reduce their cholesterol levels and cut down their risk of heart attack. Statins are a class of drugs often prescribed by doctors to help lower plasma concentrations of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Some of the types of statins available via prescription include atorvastatin (Lipitor), Fluvastatin (Le...

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Statin treatment causes an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Statins may have a diabetogenic effect on humans.

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Impact of statins on risk of new onset diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study using the Korean National Health Insurance claims database.

Type 2 diabetes is more likely to occur in statin-treated patients than in non-statin users.

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Clinical Inquiry: Do statins increase the risk of developing diabetes?

Statin-treated patients are more prone to develop type 2 diabetes.

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Statins Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Statins Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Is your cholesterol on the high side? Then, there is a great chance that your physician will want to place you on statins. “Statins”, known scientifically as HMG CoA inhibitors, are a class of drugs that reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood. Some examples of typical statins include Simvastatin (Zocor), Pitavastatin (Livalo), Rosuvastatin...

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