Statins and Cancer

However, it turns out that one of America’s most popular cholesterol lowering drugs, statins, are not only ineffective at  reducing the risk of heart attack in certain populations, but also cause a variety of unpleasant side effects and has even been linked to cancer.

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Negative effect from statins includes diarrhea, rash, high blood sugar, memory loss, constipation, drowsiness.

But the worse is that these are not so serious effect compared withmysositis and rhabdomyolysis. These are conditions that lead to inflammation of the muscles and can lead to serious muscle damage and kidney damage to. Your kidneys can result with a big failure even death.

Also several studies shows that these medicaments can cause cancer too.  They can increase the risk of prostate and breast cancer. The statins are connected with immune system, they can affect it, increase the body’s production of T cells and in this way they leave susceptible place to developing cancer.

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