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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Jul 20;218(2):451–456. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.07.007

Table 2. Prevalence of statin induced myalgia in the study population.

Category Descriptor N Myalgia fraction

Heritage Caucasian 672 0.45
African American 21 0.60
Hispanic Latino 16 0.50
Asian 34 0.42
other 50 0.37

Site CT-a* 187 0.24
CT-b 214 0.78
SF 353 0.35
NY§ 39 0.61

Drug simvastatin 116 0.38
atorvastatin 320 0.29
rosuvastatin 150 0.67
pravastatin 40 0.34
lovastatin 10 0.50
fluvastatin 8 0.86
Chinese RedYeast Rice 17 0.67
unknown 132 0.64

Key:

*

CT-a, patients treated at a primary care outpatient clinic in Connecticut

CT-b, patients treated at a lipid specialty outpatient clinic in Connecticut

SF, patients treated at lipid specialty outpatient clinics in San Francisco

§

NY, patients treated at a lipid specialty outpatient clinic in New York