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Experts recommend statins for all diabeticsDate: 11/01/2008 08:42:38
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All people with diabetes should be considered for cholesterol-lowering statin drugs whether or not they have signs of heart disease, experts have said.
Over 2.3 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes in the UK, although many more are thought to have the condition.
People with diabetes have a 20 per cent risk of developing cardiovascular disease within the next ten years, yet many are not prescribed statins, which cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, even in people with low cholesterol.
Oxford researchers analysed data on more than 90,000 people - 19,000 of whom had been diagnosed with diabetes - and found that around one third of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented with statin treatment.
Professor Colin Baigent, one of the authors of the study in the Lancet, told Reuters: "Generic statins are highly cost-effective, right down to an annual risk of about one per cent per annum of a major vascular event, so it makes sense for statins to be used widely in most people with diabetes."
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