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Cholesterol Drug Baycol Taken Off Market after Being Linked to Deaths.

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| August 09, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Oregonian. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Lauran Neergaard

Aug. 9--WASHINGTON--A cholesterol-lowering drug taken by 700,000 Americans -- Bayer Pharmaceutical's Baycol -- was pulled off the market Wednesday because of muscle destruction linked to 31 U.S. deaths and at least nine more fatalities abroad.

Baycol is one of a popular family of drugs called statins that dramatically lower cholesterol and reduce patients' risk of heart attacks. Yet every statin has been linked to very rare reports of the muscle side effect called rhabdomyolysis.

The millions of Americans who take any of five other statins sold in the United States should not panic, Food and Drug Administration physicians…

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