Sentences with phrase «previously taken any statins»

Thus, the strengths of Gupta and colleagues» study lie in the fact that these were the same patients, no run - in period existed to exclude patients intolerant to therapy, and few patients had previously taken any statins.

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All the participants had previously stopped taking statins due to muscle pain.

This new study suggests that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is somewhat higher than previously estimated — however the study was not specifically designed to address this issue, and it relies on modelling to take into account confounding factors underlying the reasons for prescribing statins.