Diabetes risk with statins linked to weight gain
7th March 2014
The increased risk of diabetes with statin treatment has been overestimated and may have more to do with weight gain than a metabolic effect of statins, two new Australian studies have suggested.
While some studies have linked higher dose statin treatment to a 9% higher risk of developing diabetes, researchers from the University of Queensland say the increased risk is much lower.
In a new meta-analysis of five statin trials, researchers found that the difference in diabetes risk between moderate and high doses of statin was extremely low at around