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A special kind of personal trial, where neither the patient nor the doctor knows when the real drug or a fake one is being taken, can help figure out if muscle pain is really caused by statins — and most people in these trials stick with it long enough to get useful answers.
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The effect of statins on muscle symptoms in primary care: the StatinWISE series of 200 N-of-1 RCTs.
Randomized Controlled Trial
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2021 MarThe study used personalized, double-blind trials to test if statins cause muscle pain, and found this method worked well and gave useful answers for most people. That supports the idea that this kind of trial is a good way to study such symptoms.
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