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[[File:Atorvastatin-3D-balls.png|500px|thumb|right|''Atorvastatin is very good at destroying muscle tissue'']]
'''Statins''' , also known by their sexier name of '''HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors''', are a group of lipid-lowering drugs used primarily to cause myopathies. In modern medicine, they are considered to be the greatest thing since sliced bread (especially since sliced bread as a therapy dropped off in the 1990s) and are given to everyone. Hence the name: ''STAT, in!''' as in "Get that statin in that patient, STAT!'''
