1/5 ALS is a particularly cruel disease, robbing its victims of the use of their muscles and of everything they control i.e. walking, speaking, eating and even breath itself.
ALS is on the increase - about 100 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each week.
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ALS is on the increase - about 100 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each week.
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2/5 The WHO Foundation Collaborating Centre has received many individual case safety reports associating Statin use with the occurrence of muscle damage, including rhabdomyolysis, and also peripheral neuropathy. A new signal has now appeared of disproportionally
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3/5 high reporting of upper Motor Neurone lesions.
Sadly my uncle died of ALS after only 12 months of 80mg Lipitor. If you have family, friends, or associates who are displaying ALS or Parkinson’s like symptoms, please draw their attention to the fact that statin use
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Sadly my uncle died of ALS after only 12 months of 80mg Lipitor. If you have family, friends, or associates who are displaying ALS or Parkinson’s like symptoms, please draw their attention to the fact that statin use
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4/5 is a risk factor. I would also appreciate any RT’s to get this message out to a wider audience.
“These findings further previous evidence showing that significantly elevated ALS reporting extends to individual statin agents, & add to concerns about potential elevated
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“These findings further previous evidence showing that significantly elevated ALS reporting extends to individual statin agents, & add to concerns about potential elevated
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5/5 occurrence of ALS-like conditions in association with statin usage”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29427042/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17536877/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29427042/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17536877/
