Although taking potent statins may increase blood sugar levels for some people, their benefits may outweigh risks when managing cholesterol.

Variants that lower LDL cholesterol through pathways such as HMGCR and NPC1L1 are linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. People with familial hypercholesterolaemia, who have very high LDL ...

Patients who received high-intensity statin therapy had a 23% elevated risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to those on low-intensity statins, the results of a large study showed. In ...

March 31, 2011 (San Francisco) — A new analysis of three major trials with atorvastatin (Lipitor, Pfizer) has suggested that the risk of new-onset diabetes with statins appears to be dose dependent ...

Low LDL-C is strongly linked to increased type 2 diabetes risk, independent of statins, suggesting biomarker potential.

Researchers at the Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences at "Federico II" University in Naples report that lower plasma LDL cholesterol is associated with a higher risk of incident type 2 ...

Statins are under-prescribed in patients with type 2 diabetes who are receiving anti-hyperglycemic agents, according to an analysis of medical records from a large database. The results show that ...

High doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may protect patients from heart attack, but a new analysis of five previous clinical trials finds that they may also increase patients’ risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with heart problems who were started on cholesterol-lowering statins were more likely to develop diabetes if they were prescribed stronger versions of the drugs, a ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a large collaborative team of researchers investigated the factors associated with the increased risk of diabetes due to statin use, ...

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