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Cholesterol Drug Crestor May Damage Kidneys

Reuters reports on October 29, 2004 that the U.S consumer group Public Citizen has called for a ban on the anti-cholesterol statin drug Crestor after 29 patients who took it have developed kidney damage.

According to Public Citizen’s analysis, there are 6.4 reports of kidney damage or failure for every 1 million Crestor prescriptions filled. Public Citizen figures this to be about 75 times higher than all the anti-cholesterol statin drugs combined.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group told the Food and Drug Administration that “it becomes clearer by the day that this drug is uniquely toxic without offering any unique benefit, and that it must be removed from the market.”

Public Citizen points out that anti-cholesterol statin drugs have come under fire in the past. In 2001, another statin drug, Baycol, was removed from the market after it was found to cause a form of severe muscle damage. Baycol was linked to more than 100 deaths.

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