Doctors often dismiss side effect complaints, patient survey says
September 8th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Physicians frequently miss the connection between their patients’ symptoms and some well-known side effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, according to a new study based on reports from 650 patients.
When patients taking statins complained to their doctors about muscle weakness or pain, cognitive problems such as memory loss and other symptoms, physicians dismissed the possibility of adverse drug reactions nearly a third of the time, researchers concluded.
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