WebMD.Boots.com For instance, patients treated with atorvastatin were found to have a 22% increased risk of new-onset diabetes, rosuvastatin an 18% increased risk and simvastatin a 10% increased risk, relative to pravastatin, which was used for comparison purposes.
Huffington Post Canada In fact, atorvastatin is by far — by far — the most popular statin." The possible link between taking some statins and diabetes has been seen in the past. In fact, Health Canada warned in January that statin users may have a small increased risk of ...
Nature World News However, patients on other drugs such as fluvastatin were at a 5 percent decreased risk and those on lovastatin were at a 1 percent decreased risk of developing the condition. "Compared with pravastatin, treatment with higher potency statins ...
Health.com Fluvastatin (Lescol) was associated with a 5 percent decreased risk of diabetes and lovastatin (Mevacor) a 1 percent decreased risk. In previous research, Crestor was associated with a 27 percent higher risk of diabetes, while Pravachol was linked to a ...
St. Albert Gazette Statin medications, such as atorvastatin (Lipitor), lovastatin (Mevacor), rosuvastatin (Crestor), simvastatin (Zocor), pravastatin (Pravachol) and fluvastatin (Lescol) are used among the general population to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke ... and more »
Daily Mail The study involved 1.5 million people in Ontario, Canada, and the statins involved were fluvastatin, lovastatin , pravastatin, simvastatin, atorvastatin and rosuvastatin. Researchers identified 471,250 patients with no history of diabetes and who were ...
Science Daily (press release) All patients were aged 66 and over and started statin therapy between 1997 and 2010. The median age was 73 years. Follow up ended either ...
MarketWatch (press release) The Company completed clinical trials of Rosuvastatin , a generic form of Crestor, and is in the production approval process. -- Antibiotic Combination. The Company completed the Phase I clinical trials of its novel cephalosporin-based combination ... and more »
Victoria Times Colonist "But for most of the patients you could probably get away with using something like pravastatin or even lovastatin .... I'd say for the vast majority of patients, those would be just fine." Pravastatin, which is sold as Pravachol or Selektine, has ...
Pulse The potency of statins - in increasing order is fluvastatin, lovastatin , pravastatin, simvastatin, atorvastatin and rosuvastatin. The researchers found no differ...
