It also says in that article that:

"We've talked about 'the lower, the better' for cholesterol and blood pressure to reduce the risk of heart attack," Schramm said in a statement.

"Now I think we should be saying 'the sooner, the better' for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in diabetics."

This statement implies, within the context of the article, that diabetics should automatically be placed on cholesterol lowering drugs.

Oh here we go again - let's not forget to take our statins, which as we all know from the media blitz lately, are pretty suspicious drugs that appear to have absolutely no benefits in the prevention of heart disease.

By the way, the link isn't old according to the date on it - yesterday March 31.