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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 4, 16–17 (1 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0671

Patients with diabetes|[mdash]|to whom should one offer statin treatment?

Amanda Adler

Siyambalapitiya S et al. (2007) Combining population health and baseline risk strategy by determining an age cutoff for initiating statins in patients with diabetes: a population-based study. Diabetes Care 30: 2025–2029 Synopsis Background The use of statins is recommended to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with diabetes mellitus; however, the optimal treatment strategy in terms of individual benefit versus overall health costs remains unresolved.