Inside the membrane, a salty cytoplasm takes up most of the cell volume. All cells possess DNA, the hereditary material of genes, and RNA, containing the information necessary to build various proteins such as enzymes, the cell's primary machinery. There are also other kinds of biomolecules in cells.
Many of these people do well when they are switched to a different variety of statin. Very rarely, statins can cause life-threatening muscle damage called rhabdomyolysis (rab-doe-my-OL-ih-sis). Rhabdomyolysis can cause severe muscle pain, liver damage, kidney failure and death. The risk of very serious side effects is extremely low, and calculated in a few cases per million of patients taking statins.
Two rare, but potentially serious, side effects that can occur are liver and muscle damage, with symptoms of nausea, upper right abdominal pain and jaundice -- yellowing of the skin and eyes -- or muscle pain and weakness.amage to the liver by statin drugs causes an increased release of liver enzymes into the circulation, most commonly the enzymes aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase, according to Drs.