Isn’t this the statin that we discussed on another thread that had such bad side effects?
Long term use of statin drugs can/will deteriorate muscles, much like Atkins diet if you have lost all of the fat and there is nothing but muscles left in the body to burn without intake of carbos or fat. My uncle Jim has been on Lipitor for 15 years or more and has had a noticable loss of strength, enough that my Mom and her 2 sisters, all nurses, will not take it any statin drug at all (70 to 80 yr old).
I don't recall. The devil is in the details. Most marketing is just hype, but the left thinks that it is their duty to protect us from ourselves or the drug companies.
The drug companies didn't help the situation when they analyzed the results of tests that they submitted to the FDA in the most favorable light, and hid the results that showed no benefit or worse.
They pushed the cholesterol hypothesis up the wazoo for everybody, stumbled across their anti-inflammatory effects and downplayed their side effects. Now as they go off patent, they want to make them over the counter drugs as well as combine them with a second drug to lower total cholesterol or raise HDL cholesterol, IIRC.