This study was published in Diabetes Care 2012 Dec 17
Study title and authors:
Statins and Risk of Diabetes: An analysis of electronic medical records to evaluate possible bias due to differential survival.
Study title and authors:
Statins and Risk of Diabetes: An analysis of electronic medical records to evaluate possible bias due to differential survival.
Danaei G, Rodríguez LA, Cantero OF, Hernán MA.
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248196
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248196
This study investigated the relationship between statins and type two diabetes. Data was drawn from the medical records of 285,864 men and women aged 50-84 years who were followed for ten years.
The study found that statin therapy was associated with a 14% increased risk of type two diabetes.
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