There have been many previous posts here about the increased risk of diabetes when taking statins. However, Amy Berger of Tuit Nutrition just posted a good summary of the mechanism and her explanations are always interesting and helpful.

A short article (for her) that ties how statins impact the side effect of diabetes:

http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2015/0...d-diabetes.html

More on the study:
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/...type-2-diabetes
http://www.dietdoctor.com/statins-may-cause-diabetes

Another study just released, on 26,000 in the Tricare military health system.

Statins increase the risk of Diabetes 87% !

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...50507145328.htm


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.

HI Jey100-- this is another hot topic for me. If you view their web video they claim a miracle!! Yes, a cash miracle for a whole new market. Chronic Kidney Disease patients-CKD, 1 in 10 WW will have kidney issues.

http://www.sharpinfo.org The SHARP study was done out of the UK, thankfully not paid for fully by US Tax dollars.

I was stunned to see such a MASSIVE 9,000 patient 400 hospital 5 year program had such a miserable finding. A lower-dose statin drug + another was given to half, and half got placebo..and in the end ONLY 3-4% TOTAL in 1,000 were helped. 30 people in 1,000…. and they got a 25% lowering of CVA risk. So 270!! out of 9,000 got 'some' help. (40 in 1K=360 in their study)

So that means 1,000 people will pay for and be ON these drugs, even if they do 'no harm', while only 30 or 40 of them will ever have ANY benefit…and not a guaranteed 100% benefit, NO, only 25% benefit.

Can you see the money rolling in when EVERY CKD patient is told this will save them from heart attacks??? when they will demand this drug be paid for by their insurance? Millions and Millions..AND NOW we will see docs scanning the charts to make sure they locate ALL the <90 eGFR patients, AND start pushing the NON CKD too, to PREVENT CVR with these drugs…more money.

These were CKD patients, not heart patients in the trial…a WHALE of a new market, people desperate for life, even those on dialysis will think "At least I won't die from a heart attack" whats a few hundred $$ (or more) a year to the $250B dialysis bill?

There is a great push by all the drug companies to get everyone on Statins..it's a sure moneymaker

An expert MD and nautrapath ( Dr. Carolyn Dean) says that the pressure to change from 240 cholesterol as normal limit to under 200 is almost totally due to the profitability of statin drugs..

As Dr. Perlmutter, of Grain Brain book fame says..you do not want to be old and have low cholesterol…every cell in your body needs it, your liver makes 80%, yet we are told it is evil!!! Slightly higher cholesterol is not the end of the world, and you will get Alzheimer's with too low of cholesterol!!! WONDERFUL web info on his site:
http://www.drperlmutter.com/statin-...used/#more-2509

this is a totally MADE UP disease: Hypercholesterolemia http://www.news-medical.net/health/...sterolemia.aspx

The Texas Tricare study gets press in the UK today after running in a UK journal.

http://www.dietdoctor.com/more-bad-news-for-statins

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...etes-study-drug

From MedPage Today:

There has never been a single study to show ANY benefit in women! This is yet another example of drugs being studied in men, and then prescribed to women with no acknowledgment that woman can have different benefits... and risks.