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What is the difference in Simvastatin 80 mg and Pravastatin 20 mg.? Thursday, December 24, 2009 MonicaRD Hi Baseball TW, Statin medications, in general, help to reduce cholesterol and benefit people with heart disease.

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DEAR DR. GOTT: Like several of your readers, I, too, suffered from painful muscle aches after taking various statin drugs for cholesterol control.

Even adults at moderate risk for developing heart disease can benefit from these medicines.

High-dose statin treatment reduces the incidence of serious cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndromes who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention , according to a study in the Dec.

Dear Dr. Gott: Like several of your readers, I, too, suffered from painful muscle aches after taking various statin drugs for cholesterol control.

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Statins are cholesterol-lowering medications that are highly effective and generally safe.

A U.S. medical researcher says he has determined two commonly used statins have different drug and cell dependent effects in the brain.

A class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors.

However, a study in the October Journal of Lipid Research finds that similar statin drugs can have profoundly different effects on brain cells -both beneficial and detrimental.

U.S. researchers have identified a common gene mutation linked to side effects in people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Women and those with a variant of a liver-metabolizing enzyme have a higher risk of mild statin-associated side effects, particularly those associated with simvastatin, according to a study in the Oct.

Q : As a doctor who treats heart patients, I am thwarted by your unbalanced reporting about cholesterol- lowering drugs.

Dr Reddy's Laboratories has recalled some batches of four products from its key US market that were observed to contain some oversized tablets.

As a doctor who treats heart patients, I am thwarted by your unbalanced reporting about cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Learn the safest practices for medication use and what to ask your doctor. Raise your right hand if you are taking a cholesterol-lower medication like Crestor or Lipitor.

You've probably never met Myrtle Potter, but you may have taken some of the medicines she has marketed.

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From the TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine , Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School; and the Harvard Medical School-Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine , Boston, Mass.