SAN DIEGO—In Hot Topics in Myositis, a session held Nov. 7 at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, rheumatologists discussed treating myositis patients in three different clinical scenarios: persistently elevated creatine kinase (CK), immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies and lung disease. Elevated CK Patients with persistently elevated levels of CK enzyme and normal muscle strength “may still have…
Genetic Link Between Cellular Cholesterol Homeostasis and Energy Metabolism
A new study suggests that GATM may serve as the functional link between the ability of statins to lower cholesterol and their ability to cause statin-induced myopathy. (posted Nov. 19)