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Confusion as statins seem to up diabetes risk

New research published in the journal Diabetes Care suggests we still don’t really understand how the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins work.

Contrary to expections, it seems that taking the drugs may slightly increase the risk of diabetes. Dr. Swapnil Rajpathak of the of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and his team pooled data from six trials covering some 57,000 adults. Taken as whole, treatment with statins increased the risk of diabetes by 6%. But if one Scottish trial which, contrary to all the others, suggested statins actually protect against diabetes is excluded, the remaining five showed an increased risk of 13%.

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