Statin-Induced Type 2 Diabetes (Part 2)

DiabetesInsight Volume 07, Issue 02

January 7, 2016

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Statin-Induced Type 2 Diabetes (Part 2)

Interview with Benjamin Morgan Scirica, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Do statins induce diabetes? Statins appear to cause some people to develop diabetes earlier than they would otherwise. The Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin (JUPITER) study showed that there was ˜27% increased...