When the liver cells can't make enough of their own cholesterol anymore because of the statin treatment, the body's cholesterol balancing impulse kicks into action, causing liver cells to suck up more LDL from the bloodstream. The cells break down the LDL into cholesterol to make up for the...
A Medicaid cohort linkage study of 1,152 statin-exposed pregnant women compared to 886,996 controls did not find a significant teratogenic effect from maternal use of statins in the first trimester of pregnancy, after adjusting for potential confounders – including maternal age, diabetes mellitus, ...
When the liver cells can't make enough of their own cholesterol anymore because of the statin treatment, the body's cholesterol balancing impulse kicks into action, causing liver cells to suck up more LDL from the bloodstream. The cells break down the LDL into cholesterol to make up for the...