Statin-associated muscular and renal adverse events: data mining of the public version of the FDA adverse event reporting system.

OBJECTIVE: Adverse event reports (AERs) submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were reviewed to assess the muscular and renal adverse events induced by the administration of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) and to attempt to determine the...

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Main Authors: Toshiyuki Sakaeda, Kaori Kadoyama, Yasushi Okuno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3243683?pdf=render