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Lack of D Makes Statin Injury Worse

Thursday, November 20, 2008 - Byron Richards, CCN
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New research shows that if a patient is lacking in vitamin D then injury from toxic statin drugs is likely to happen more often.  A whopping 38.8% of patients reported statin-related muscle aches and pains.  As I have pointed out previously these aches and pains are not the same as being sore from exercise.  They actually signify that your muscle is being injured through abnormal activation of gene called atrogen-1.

Those patients with very low vitamin D levels (vitamin D

<20 ng/mL) Had a very high rate of statin-related muscle pain (62.1%) compared to those who had vitamin D scores >

30 (17.6%).

At a heart meeting where statin pushing has gone wild, this type of information is annoying.  It would mean that every person to be given a statin should first be checked for vitamin D status so as to prevent unnecessary injury.  Never mind that many elderly people on statins are deficient in vitamin D.  This valid precaution is likely to go in one ear and out the other, viewed as an inconvenience to the system of fast-food drug prescribing.

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