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.
Statins in new health alert: Daily pill can cause kidney damage. A WONDERDRUG taken daily by millions of Britons to control cholesterol could dramatically increase the risk of Â­kidney damage, researchers warn. High doses of statins, prescribed to Â­prevent heart disease and stroke, are linked to higher rates of acute kidney injury, they say.