A 73-year-old male with T2DM, essential hypertension, and PCI/stent, on Atorvastatin 20 mg, presented with dry cough, fever, diarrhea, malaise, and severe myalgia, predominantly in the legs. His CK was 6,976, AST/ALT of 300/328, LDH of 981 and creatinine was 96 with positive blood test in U/A. He survived the episode. The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is essential hypertension.