Simvastatin dose and acute kidney injury without concurrent serious muscle injury: A nationwide nested case-control study.

Inconsistent findings from four observational studies suggest that the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) may increase with increasing statin dose or potency, but none of the studies took statin-related severe muscle injury, including rhabdomyolysis, into account. We undertook a nationwide nested cas...

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Main Authors: Lianne Parkin, Katrina J Sharples, David J Barson, Mei-Ling Blank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5533333?pdf=render