Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
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November 2013
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Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis · Nov 2013
Multicenter Study Clinical TrialPrimary prevention with statins and incident diabetes in hypertensive patients at high cardiovascular risk.
The ESC/ESH guidelines for arterial hypertension recommend using statins for patients with high cardiovascular (CV) risk for both secondary and primary prevention. A recent meta-analysis, combining previous studies on statins, concluded that they are associated with a 9% increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). There is no information on whether statins increase incidence of DM in primary prevention. ⋯ In real-life outpatient environment, statin prescription for primary prevention is not associated with increased risk of incident DM.