Dr. Sandeep Vijan of the University of Michigan, lead author of an article that accompanied the guidelines, said that "almost everyone with type 2 diabetes should be on a statin." The average age of ...

Practice-Level Variation in Statin Use Among Patients With Diabetes: Insights From the PINNACLE Registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology , September 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.06.048 ...

New Guidelines Suggest Statins For Diabetics At Risk For Heart Disease Posted 2006-08-03T21:06:57+00:00 - Updated 2004-07-23T06:46:00+00:00 Diabetics learn to keep a close watch on their blood sugar.

Although guidelines recommend giving diabetic patients statins to reduce their risk of CVD and CVD mortality, little is known about practice-level variations in statin prescribing, according to Dr ...

But the new recommendations focus on risk factors, including whether individuals have diabetes or heart disease, or if they have a level of so-called bad cholesterol known as LDL. That's 190 or ...

What do guidelines say about statin use in patients with type 1 diabetes? X. No Results. ... Cite this: Julie Sease. When Do Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Need Statins? - Medscape - May 15, 2014 ...

The guidelines for statins are recommending increasing numbers of patients take this medication; the only fight is whether it should be 16% or 25% more patients. We are talking about say 9 million, ...

To test their hypothesis, Sarraju and colleagues developed a deep learning NLP algorithm using Clinical Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to identify statin nonuse and ...

A total of 70% diabetes patients were prescribed a statin. Men and women received similarly intensive statins, however, significant differences were seen based on ethnicity; with nonwhite patients ...

For patients who may not yet be diabetic, but are vulnerable to developing the disease and also may need a statin, Dr. Neil Stone, lead author of the 2013 American College of Cardiology and ...

However, in one trial, JUPITER, there was a significant benefit in treating patients with rosuvastatin 20 mg, a high-intensity statin. For that reason, the ACC/AHA recommendations leave the option to ...