Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh
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first heard Aug 2026
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Exactly.
And is this based on like, do we understand a mechanism?
Oh, such a good question.
We don't.
We don't.
Because the vast majority of these, even the side effects that could be attributed to statins are considered mild.
A lot of people actually will continue their statin.
And the amount of people who report symptoms after the first year actually goes down.
So it's usually
in that first year of therapy.
Realistically, it's usually within the first few weeks or months of starting a statin medicine that people are more likely to have effects directly related to the statin.
But no, we don't understand exactly the mechanism.
But most of them are mild and they do not result in actual damage to the muscle tissue or myopathy.
Now, that does not mean that they can't ever have
Right.
Right.
There are more serious events like rhabdomyolysis, and that is estimated to occur about four excess cases per 10,000 people if you're on a high intensity statin.
Does that mean there's only four?
But like some people get rhabdo that has nothing to do with statins.
Right.
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