Despite being one of the most effective cholesterol-lowering agents, statins remain a controversial topic in healthcare. This ...

A: There is an underdiagnosed condition called statin-induced autoimmune myopathy (Southern Medical Journal, April 2022). It can take years to show up and can be hard to treat. Even after stopping ...

There is an underdiagnosed condition called statin-induced autoimmune myopathy. It can take years to show up and can be hard to treat.

To examine the effect of lipid lowering drugs on irisin levels, a parallel three-group study was designed. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive simvastatin 40 mg/day, ezetimibe 10 mg/day or ...

Protein-truncating mutations in the titin gene are associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation. However, little is known about the underlying pathophysiology.

2020;13(3):299-310. doi: 10.1080/17512433.2020.1734451 Akimoto H, Negishi A, Oshima S, et al. Onset timing of statin-induced musculoskeletal adverse events and concomitant drug-associated shift in ...

Noise-induced hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. It’s not as much a matter of how loud a sound seems, but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever ...

Statin treatment leads to increased oxidative stress in the skeletal muscle cells and leads to upregulation of apoptosis. Mitochondrial antioxidants reverse the effects of simvastatin-induced ...

By utilizing quantitative and qualitative models, we discovered that soluble factors secreted by human monocytes potently inhibit SARS-CoV-2-induced cell-cell fusion in viral-infected cells. Through ...

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hebei International Joint Research Center for Digital Twin Diagnosis and Treatment of Digestive Tract Tumors, Baoding Key Laboratory of Precision Diagnosis and ...