{"id":84683,"date":"2026-02-09T08:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84683"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:26:28","slug":"what-are-statins-the-uses-and-side-effects-of-cholesterol-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/09\/what-are-statins-the-uses-and-side-effects-of-cholesterol-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"What are statins? The uses and side effects of cholesterol medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VNjTx.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Man holding blister pack box packet of Atorvastatin statins. (Alamy\/PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/statins-side-effects-heart-stroke-cholesterol-b2914709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">New research<\/a>\u00a0indicates that the majority of side-effects commonly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/statins-side-effects-cholesterol-heart-attack-b2915164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">linked to statins<\/a> are not, in fact, caused by the medication itself.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/what-are-statins-the-uses-and-side-effects-of-cholesterol-medication\/ar-AA1VNNdc?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69899386849b4da783043114efddad68&amp;ei=78\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>New research\u00a0indicates that the majority of side-effects commonly\u00a0linked to statins are not, in fact, caused by the medication itself.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Atovastatin-1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84684,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84683\/revisions\/84684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}