A study published in the American Heart Journal from researchers at a preventive cardiology clinic at Cleveland Clinic found that 87.2% of people who could not take statins because of muscle pain could tolerate daily, or every other day day dosing if they tried again (usually with a different statin.)
Even people who had to take the drug every other day had much better LDL levels than those who had to stop taking a statin all together.
"There was a trend toward a decrease in all-cause mortality at 8 years for patients on daily and intermittent statin dosing compared with those who discontinued statin. "
>>> Read abstract here
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