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Statins Prolonged Muscle Pain
A University of Wisconsin study found that statin-related myopathy, or muscle pain, may not recur after switching to a different drug. Of those patients with myopathy—2 percent to 11 percent, by some estimates—43 percent were able to tolerate a new statin without recurrence.
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