ReviewJournal of lifestyle medicine2014
Statin-induced Myopathy in Skeletal Muscle: the Role of Exercise.
Review in Journal of lifestyle medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect ofMedical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dietary Habits and Musculoskeletal Pain in Statin and Red Yeast Rice Users: A Pilot Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2021Article
- Exercise Training Protects against Atorvastatin-Induced Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the Skeletal Muscle of Rats.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- High Serum Aspartate Aminotransferase, Underweight, and Weight Loss in Older People: Results of the KITCHEN-4.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Acute Onset Significant Muscle Weakness in a Patient Awaiting Liver Transplantation: Look for Statins.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Statins are widely used drugs to lower cholesterol levels and to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it has been reported that statins are associated with adverse side effects of skeletal myopathy. Statin treatment can impair mitochondrial function and induce apoptosis in skeletal muscle in both human and animal models. Ubiquinone plays an essential role in transferring electrons in the mitochondrial electron transfer chain for oxidative phosphorylation. However, statin treatment reduces ubiquinone levels in the cholesterol synthesis pathway, which may be associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. In addition, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and apoptosis induced by statins may provide cellular and molecular mechanisms in skeletal myopathy. Exercise is the most effective therapy to prevent metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. However, whether exercise provides a benefit to or exacerbation of statin-induced myopathy in skeletal muscle remains poorly investigated. This review will briefly provide a comprehensive summary regarding the effects of statins on skeletal myopathy, and discuss the potential mechanisms of statin-induced myopathy and the role of exercise in statin-induced myopathy in skeletal muscle.
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