Fact-check: “Statins sometimes cause increased sweating, hand tremors and muscle pain”
Verdict: Partly True (72% confidence)
The muscle pain part is solidly documented — FDA labels for atorvastatin and simvastatin, MedlinePlus, and a 2022 large-scale Lancet meta-analysis all confirm statins occasionally cause myalgia, though the excess risk above placebo is small (<1% absolute difference in some trials). Tremor appears in FDA prescribing information for at least two statins as a listed nervous-system adverse event, but no primary clinical trial or case-report evidence for hand tremors specifically was located. Increa…
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