"Patients with diabetes, including those without ... and the American Heart Association issued guidelines stating that unless contraindicated, statin therapy should be started and maintained ...

Dr Lipska told Medscape Medical News she likes to use the statin decision aid developed by the Mayo Clinic when discussing this topic with patients. Although guidelines recommend giving diabetic ...

An AI model identified reasons for statin nonuse among patients with diabetes. The most common ... complex reasons for statin nonuse.” The algorithm’s performance was evaluated against expert ...

and low-cost way to lower cholesterol and reduce risk of cardiovascular events. Despite clinicians recommending that many patients with diabetes take statins, nearly one-fifth of them opt to delay ...

Should she start a statin? Before we evaluate the case using the new guidelines ... was a slightly increased occurrence of new-onset diabetes mellitus among participants taking pitavastatin ...

For LDL cholesterol ... be counseling their patients with diabetes about proper sleep habits and identifying people who have sleep issues, according to the new guidelines. Many people with ...

Among patients without diabetes at baseline ... The study findings should help shape clinical guidelines for managing people on statin treatment. The evidence of positive effects on major vascular ...

A previous RCT that compared the renal effects of atorvastatin and rosuvastatin in patients with diabetes who had proteinuria ... of inpatients used metformin and statins in our study, reflecting poor ...

Such patients were counseled on healthy dietary guidelines and reminded ... a baseline glycemic status of no diabetes. Results were adjusted for baseline LDL cholesterol or glycated hemoglobin ...