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New Statins increase risk of diabetes by 87%
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150507145328.htm

In a database study of nearly 26,000 beneficiaries of Tricare, the military health system, those taking statin drugs to control their cholesterol were 87 percent more likely to develop diabetes.

The study, reported online April 28, 2015, in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, confirms past findings on the link between the widely prescribed drugs and diabetes risk. But it is among the first to show the connection in a relatively healthy group of people. The study included only people who at baseline were free of heart disease, diabetes, and other severe chronic disease.

"In our study, statin use was associated with a significantly higher risk of new-onset diabetes, even in a very healthy population," says lead author Dr. Ishak Mansi. "The risk of diabetes with statins has been known, but up until now it was thought that this might be due to the fact that people who were prescribed statins had greater medical risks to begin with."
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New This is my "surprised" face ... want to see it again?
--

Drew
New Well that's something to keep an eye on ... :-/
New VA following the rules?
The Federal Government passed open access laws to make publicly-funded research available to the pee-puhl. I followed the link to the real science at the end of the news article and got into a Springer site. I was able to download the article fine, but cannot tell what that was so because the article is open access or because I am on campus where we pay for lots of special access.

What say you? Can you get access to the article (not just the abstract) in the real world?
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-015-3335-1
New No, one has to pay for article.
Only abstract and references can be seen.
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
New Do as we say, not as we do
Typical of the Feds.

Thanks for checking.
New Not quite right.
There's no requirement that government-created or government-funded research be published in open-access journals. It would cause lots of problems if that were the case (until the big journals are open-access, anyway).

WhiteHouse.gov:

That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.


It's not clear that the VA Health System does $100M in R&D each year, so even this it might not apply to them.

HTH.

Cheers,
Scott.
New embargoed for one year
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
New I hate relative risk figures
They don't really tell you anything.

Show me the actual numbers.
New Yup. They did seem to try to make the groups uniform though.
I haven't read it carefully yet, but one thing that jumped out at me was:

"The pattern of statin use in our study, where 77 % of statin users used simvastatin [Zocor], may be different from current statin utilization trends. Data from the private sector indicate that the use of atorvastatin [Liptor] in certain markets may be as high as 48 %, and that rosuvastatin [Crestor] use has risen to 65 % in some markets. 78,79"

Is it a function of the kind of statin used? They don't seem to know. I'm on a generic Pravachol (20 mg).

Another is, they lumped the "low" and "moderate" statin uses together in one group and compared them to the "high" statin users in another group. Why? Does the risk scale with dose? Hard to know in a quick scan.

If you (or anyone else) want a copy of the paper, send an e-mail to anotherscott.stuff round thingy gmail dot com. It's 12 pages of small print.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Re: Statins increase risk of diabetes by 87%
I was prescribed statins the other year. Took the 90 day course, but the more I read about them (sorting internet signal from noise was a chore, and my winnowing may have been imprecise), the less I liked the idea, and did not renew the prescription.

cordially,
New So I could take them, since that doesn't matter any more... ;-/
     Statins increase risk of diabetes by 87% - (malraux) - (11)
         This is my "surprised" face ... want to see it again? -NT - (drook)
         Well that's something to keep an eye on ... :-/ -NT - (Another Scott)
         VA following the rules? - (gcareaga) - (4)
             No, one has to pay for article. - (a6l6e6x) - (2)
                 Do as we say, not as we do - (gcareaga) - (1)
                     Not quite right. - (Another Scott)
             embargoed for one year -NT - (boxley)
         I hate relative risk figures - (pwhysall) - (1)
             Yup. They did seem to try to make the groups uniform though. - (Another Scott)
         Re: Statins increase risk of diabetes by 87% - (rcareaga)
         So I could take them, since that doesn't matter any more... ;-/ -NT - (CRConrad)

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