Overview
- Examines both sides of the debate on whether statin-related muscle symptoms exist
- Discusses risk factors, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, clinical presentations, and management
- Highlights the psychosocial, emotional, and societal factors influencing patients’ perceptions and experiences of SAMS
- Presents the results of observational and clinical trials on the prevalence and treatment of SAMS
Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology (CONCARD)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Clinical management of statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Clinical presentations of statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Clinical trials on statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Diagnosis of statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Patients’ perceptions and experiences of SAMS
- Prevalence of statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Risk factors for statin-associated muscle symptoms
- Statin-associated inflammatory myositis
- Statins and exercise performance
- Treatment of statin-associated muscle symptoms
- pharmacotherapy
About this book
A key addition to the Contemporary Cardiology series, Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms is an essential resource for physicians, medical students, residents, fellows, and allied health professionals in cardiology, endocrinology, pharmacotherapy, primary care, and health promotion and disease prevention.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chief of Cardiology Emeritus
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT
Professor of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, CT
Beth A. Taylor, PhD
Division of Cardiology
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT
Department of Kinesiology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms
Editors: Paul D. Thompson, Beth A. Taylor
Series Title: Contemporary Cardiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33304-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33303-4Published: 26 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33306-5Published: 26 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33304-1Published: 25 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-8969
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 188
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Endocrinology, Pharmacotherapy