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...somehow we are uncovering diabetes a few months earlier, that may actually be a good thing since they get diagnosed and treated earlier,” Ridker said...
...Using statins in the prevention and treatment of heart disease is also cost-effective, Ridker said...
...Ridker said that since this the study examined healthy individuals, researchers generally anticipate low short-term rates of disease. He added that the effect was “so striking between active therapy and placebo that an independent monitoring board felt compelled to stop the trial early, also resulting in low event rates...
...these individuals, though, the benefit to risk ratio is “about as good as you can get,” Ridker said...
...Ridker said that there was a small increase in diabetes for patients given the statin in the study. But, he said, “almost all” of the diabetes occurred among patients with “impaired fasting glucose,” or those who were “already heading toward diabetes...