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Aishwarya Kapoor

What a Statin Actually Does and Why Stopping It Alone Is Dangerous

Every day, millions of people in India swallow a small tablet at night and go to bed without thinking much about it. The statin sits in the stomach, moves into the liver, and does something most patients were never clearly told about. That gap between taking a drug and understanding it is where the danger lives, not in the pill itself, but in the decisions people make without knowing what it is actually doing.

The Liver Is the Target, Not the Heart

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