Imperial Medics claim statins have few side effects
According to College medical researchers, statins have virtually no side effects.
According to College medical researchers, statins have virtually no side effects.
In a recent study looking at 29 trials during which 80,000 patients took statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) the team concluded that a minority of side-effects were contributed by the drugs. Instead they found that patients were more likely to suffer serious side-effects from placebo pills in a control group than from statins.
The researchers from the National Heart and Lung Institute said that out of the side-effects that they monitored (including nausea, kidney disorder and muscular disease), the only side-effect that they could determine was an increased risk of diabetes, with 3% of subjects on statins being newly diagnosed with diabetes, in comparison to 2.4% of patients in the control group.
