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If you’ve been treated with Crestor and have experience heart problems, you should speak with a Crestor heart failure lawyer about your right to financial compensation. Only a qualified attorney will be able to help you get the compensation you deserve.

Background

Some researchers believe that Crestor and other statin drugs (to help lower cholesterol levels) can harm the heart. This is based on data published in a January 2009 issue of The Lancet that links the depletion of coenzyme Q10 in myocardial [heart muscle] tissue with an increase in the severity of heart failure.

Coenzyme Q10 is a normally occurring substance in the body that is thought to protect the heart from heart disease. Statins, such as Crestor are cholesterol-lowering medications that are known to lower the body’s levels of Q10. Thus, some researchers are concluding that Crestor and other statins are actually harming the heart by depressing the levels of Q10.

According to the authors of the study, “we have shown that coenzyme Q10 levels, but not statin therapy, are an independent predictor of total mortality in an observational study of 236 patients with heart failure.”

Heart Failure Information

Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the body’s organs and tissues. It is a condition that affects 5.7 million persons in the United States and causes 300,000 to die annually. While there is no cure, medications and changes in lifestyle can help people live longer, more active lives.

The condition develops over time while the heart’s ability to pump blood weakens. The main reasons people develop heart failure are that they have diseases that injure the heart. The primary illnesses to cause heart failure are:

• Coronary artery disease, or the narrowing of the blood vessels leading to the heart by the buildup of plaque, thus decreasing the blood flow to the heart
• High blood pressure in which the force of the blood against the artery walls is so high that it eventually causes disease, including heart attack and stroke
• Diabetes, an illness in which the body cannot regulate the levels of glucose or sugar in the blood. High levels of blood sugar cause atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and stroke, just to name a few.

Complications of Heart Failure

• Damage to the kidneys because of restricted blood flow to the organs
• Damage to the heart valves because fluid and blood build up in the heart
• Liver damage because of the buildup of fluid and scarring of the organ
• Blood clots that lead to heart attack and stroke

Contact a Crestor Heart Failure Lawyer

If you or a loved one has been taking Crestor and suffer from heart failure, you should contact a Crestor heart failure lawyer. You may be eligible for any pain, suffering, and expense you have undergone. The link between Crestor and heart failure is still being researched, however, our attorneys are available to investigate potential cases.

Contact a Crestor heart failure attorney for more information.

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