statin therapy produced a 7% relative increase in muscle pain or weakness compared to placebo, suggesting that only one in 15 of these muscle-related reports by patients given statins were because ...
While this is not conclusive, there are two randomized controlled trials showing significant improvements in the severity of muscle pain with the use of CoQ10 in patients treated with statins.
Although these cholesterol medications are some of the safest and most effective, they can come with unwanted side effects. We asked a doctor to explain.