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Statin-induced diabetes: incidence, mechanisms, and implications
2016-06-24
Abstract excerpt
Persuasive data from many randomized controlled trials and large, long-term observational studies indicate a modestly increased risk for the emergence of new diabetes after statin initiation. Several meta-analyses of many statin trials as well as longitudinal population-based studies suggest that the risk factors for diabetes in statin-treated persons include underlying risk for diabetes at baseline (specifically...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 61c8805e-f061-5d5a-830c-f79158536ea8
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.8629.1