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Hi All,
FDA is now warning about Diabetes and Statins: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/Cons.../ucm293330.htm The Risk of Diabetes: Diabetes occurs because of defects in the body’s ability to produce or use insulin—a hormone needed to convert food into energy. If the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin or if cells do not respond appropriately to insulin, blood sugar levels in the blood get too high, which can lead to serious health problems. A small increased risk of raised blood sugar levels and the development of Type 2 diabetes have been reported with the use of statins. “Clearly we think that the heart benefit of statins outweighs this small increased risk,” says Egan. But what this means for patients taking statins and the health care professionals prescribing them is that blood-sugar levels may need to be assessed after instituting statin therapy,” she says. By the way, Egan is wrong about the "heart benefit of statins". Cholesterol does NOT show as a risk factor in autopsies: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/23/6/847.full.pdf http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/6/397.full And statins can cripple and/or kill you: Rhabdomyolysis statins, statin-induced rhabdomyolysis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16651050 http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/Cons...cm293330.htm#4 -T |
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