Meta-analysis suggests under 10% of statin muscle-symptom reports are drug-caused

What was said

"And what they found is not that muscle symptoms were never reported by any means, but that by comparing all these different regimens, what they estimated was that less than 10% of all of the reports of muscle symptoms could actually be directly attributed to statins themselves. Does that make sense?"

Erin Welsh describes a “recent meta analysis” of randomised controlled trials involving “over 150,000 people” that, she says, estimated fewer than 10% of reported muscle symptoms were directly attributable to statins. She frames this as part of the broader challenge of distinguishing true drug side-effects from other causes, including the nocebo effect.