Statins and risk of incident diabetes – is it a real clinical problem? Review article

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Witold Pikto-Pietkiewicz
Juliusz Rawdanowicz

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Statins are widely used in cardiovascular prevention. Despite good tolerability statins are not free of side effects. One of the issue recently araised is new onset diabetes during statin treatment. Experimental studies have revealed potential mechanism responsible for hyperglycemia. Analyses of the clinical trials indicate that hyperglycemic and diabetogenic effect is not the same for each of the statin. Depending on the selection of the trials to meta-analyses relative risk of developing diabetes range from 1.03 up to 1.48. In this article we review literature of this topic.

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Pikto-Pietkiewicz , W., & Rawdanowicz , J. (2013). Statins and risk of incident diabetes – is it a real clinical problem?. Cardiology in Practice, 7(1), 4-12. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/kwp/article/view/1572
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