How clinically relevant is statin-induced diabetes?
Diabetes is a common chronic disease that affects up to 10% of adults worldwide.1 People with diabetes are at high risk for a wide variety of serious health consequences including, but not limited to, myocardial infarctions, strokes, heart failure, blindness, kidney failure, lower limb amputations, cognitive impairment, and many cancers. This increased risk is independent of other risk factors, is causally related to increased plasma glucose concentrations for cardiovascular events and some of the other consequences,2,3 and doubles the risk of all-cause death.