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Patients with diabetes—to whom should one offer statin treatment?

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boxed-textSiyambalapitiya 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

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