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Statins save lives by lowering cholesterol, but when combined with common antibiotics, statins are linked to patient hospitalization for muscle breakdown, acute kidney injury, or worse, a large study finds.
Older patients on lipid-lowering drugs known as statins shouldn’t take antibiotics clarithromycin or erythromycin because of an increased risk for drug toxicity, according to a large Canadian study published today in the clinical journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
If you are on a statin, avoiding these particular antibiotics may keep you safe from uncommon — but potentially life-threatening — drug-drug interactions. The antibiotics clarithromycin or erythromycin increase the levels of commonly used lipid-lowering drugs, because both drugs interact with the same liver enzyme.
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