{"id":612,"date":"2025-09-04T06:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:56:19","slug":"common-myths-associated-with-cholesterol-reducing-drug-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612\/","title":{"rendered":"Common myths associated with cholesterol-reducing drug debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality: Serious liver or kidney problems from statins are very uncommon. Today,experts agree that statins are safe even in people with fatty liver disease or compensated cirrhosis, and they shouldn\u2019t be withheld when heart benefits are expected. For kidneys, randomized evidence shows no clear increase in acute kidney injury with regular statin use. In fact, guidelines recommend them for most people with chronic kidney disease (except those on dialysis), since their cardiovascular risk is higher. However, a large observational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/view\/study-details-increased-risk-of-kidney-damage-with-rosuvastatin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> linked high-dose rosuvastatin to small increases in hematuria or proteinuria, especially in advanced CKD. That\u2019s why careful dosing is important in such patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reality: Serious liver or kidney problems from statins are very uncommon. Today,experts agree that statins are safe even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1087,1086,1084,134,524,111,139,69,1083,1082,1085],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-statins-can-lead-to-liver-and-kidney-damage","tag-statins-cause-memory-loss-confusion","tag-common-myths-associated-with-cholesterol-reducing-drug-debunked","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-statin-intolerance","tag-statin-intolerance-common-myths-associated-with-cholesterol-reducing-drug-debunked","tag-statins-and-its-ill-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}