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Article: Statin therapy may keep creatine kinase elevated in glycogen storage disease.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- November 28, 2003
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2003 NOV 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Statin therapy for hypercholesterolemia may make plasma creatine kinase stay elevated if the patient has a known or unknown glycogen storage disease.
According to a study from England, "Two cases of hypercholesterolemic patients are presented, in whom raised plasma creatine kinase was noted during treatment with statins.
"The plasma creatine kinase failed to fall following cessation of therapy," wrote J.H. Barth and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "Further investigation revealed the etiology of the raised plasma creatine kinase to be due to previously undiagnosed glycogen storage diseases ...