Comment on: Statin use and risk of diabetes mellitus.
In manuscript named "Statin use and risk of diabetes mellitus" by Chogtu et al, authors defined that pravastatin 40 mg/dL reduced the risk of diabetes by 30% in West of Scotland Coronary Prevention study. In fact, pravastatin 40 mg/dL reduced coronary heart disease risk approximately 30% in mentioned study.
Mehmet Ali Eren, Tevfik Sabuncu, Hüseyin Karaaslan, Department of Endocrinology, Harran University, School of Medicine, 63100 Sanliurfa, Turkey.
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Eren
Mehmet Ali Eren, Tevfik Sabuncu, Hüseyin Karaaslan, Department of Endocrinology, Harran University, School of Medicine, 63100 Sanliurfa, Turkey.
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Sabuncu
Mehmet Ali Eren, Tevfik Sabuncu, Hüseyin Karaaslan, Department of Endocrinology, Harran University, School of Medicine, 63100 Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Hüseyin
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Karaaslan
Coronary heart disease; Diabetes mellitus; Myocardial Infarction; Pravastatin; Statins