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Could statins induce a selenium deficiency and keshan's disease or white muscle disease?
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No: There is an 'independent thinker' / selenium militant who makes this claim. Statins can produce rhabdomyolysis, but this is a histologically and clinically different lesion.
Answered 7/9/2014
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