WHI: type 2 diabetes is equally risky with or without statins after menopause

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

European Journal of Epidemiology

pp 1-15

First online: 17 May 2016

Impact of incident diabetes on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease according to statin use history among postmenopausal women

• Yunsheng Ma 
• , Gioia M. Persuitte
• , Christopher Andrews
• , Kathleen M. Hovey
• ,Michael J. LaMonte
• , Annie L. Culver
• , JoAnn E. Manson
• , Lawrence S. Phillips
• , Simin Liu
•  and 11 more
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• Secondary endpoints:
• Results were similar when they analyzed myocardial infarction, stroke, and cardiovascular death as separate outcomes. For example, in the nonstatin-treated group, the hazard ratio for myocardial infarction was 1.38 versus nondiabetic participants (95% CI 1.17-1.62) compared with 1.52 (95% CI 1.12-2.07) in the statin-treated group (P=0.55 for comparison).

The need for an app to prescribe statins (and other treatments) is obvious...