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f6340) by Aseem Malhotra stated that a recent "real world" study of 150 000 patients who were taking statins showed "unacceptable" side effects-including myalgia, gastrointestinal upset, sleep and memory disturbance, and erectile dysfunction-in 20% of participants.The author withdraws this statement.Although it was based on statements in the referenced observational study by Zhang and colleagues that "the rate of reported statin-related events to statins was nearly 18%," 1 the article did not reflect necessary caveats and did not take sufficient account of the uncontrolled nature of the study.
Aseem Malhotra (Tue,) studied this question.