Abstract
The present study is a complement to the Master's project, whose objective was to evaluate the safety of atorvastatin in patients with Systemic Autoimmune Myopathies (SAM). In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 14 patients with SAM received atorvastatin calcium (20 mg/day) and 6 patients with SAM received one tablet - placebo/day for a period of 12 weeks. The m…