Updated cholesterol guidelines could make more than half of adults ages 30 to 79 in the United States eligible for statins.

Patients who received high-intensity statin therapy had a 23% elevated risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to those on low-intensity statins, the results of a large study showed. In ...

Statins raise the risks for increased glucose levels and the development of type 2 diabetes among people who don't have it at baseline, but those risks are outweighed by the cardiovascular benefit, ...

An estimated 21.5 million additional adults in the United States may now be eligible for statins under updated cholesterol ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers performed a meta-analysis of long-term, large-scale, randomized, double-blinded controlled trials to determine the ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a large collaborative team of researchers investigated the factors associated with the increased risk of diabetes due to statin use, ...

A large cohort study found that statins significantly reduce the risk of death and major cardiovascular events in adults with type 2 diabetes, even among those with low predicted 10‐year ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with heart problems who were started on cholesterol-lowering statins were more likely to develop diabetes if they were prescribed stronger versions of the drugs, a ...

Millions of people who could benefit from statins have stopped taking them or never started, largely because they fear muscle ...

Researchers at the Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences at "Federico II" University in Naples report that lower plasma LDL cholesterol is associated with a higher risk of incident type 2 ...

High doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may protect patients from heart attack, but a new analysis of five previous clinical trials finds that they may also increase patients’ risk of ...

There is no one-size-fits-all safest statin. The best choice depends on the side effects a person experiences, their co-occurring conditions, and other medications they take. If a person cannot ...