Could Statin Drugs Increase Your Chance of Diabetes?
More and more evidence continues to expose the dangers of statin drugs. Some of you may be familiar with some of the more common side effects such memory loss, muscle weakness, and liver damage. But a new study on statin drugs show that these cholesterol-lowering pharmaceuticals pose other health risks as well.
In a recent published analysis of data pooled from six clinical trials data, involving more than 57,000 adults, researchers examined the influence of long-term statin use. They found that long- term use Statin use increased the risk of acquiring Type II diabetes. Over 2,082 of the study participants developed diabetes over a follow-up period of 3.9 years. Even though researchers might consider this small the scientist evaluating this data thought it was statistically significant increase in risk ranging from 6 to 13 percent.
According to the study the researches were surprised by this outcome. However, many researches for some time now have been aware of the relationship between Statin drugs and diabetes.
Surprisingly most doctors consider Statin drugs the first choice for patients that are diagnosed with high cholesterol. It is even more amazing to me to find that a recent study even proposed that statins should be prescribed for prevention of chronic inflammation despite that their trials came to the same negative results.
I am not saying that there is a benefit to some pharmaceutical drugs. Some pharmaceutical drugs have been life saving. I don’t think that people would argue about how the invention of some antibiotics have been revolutionary. But unfortunately the Big Pharma is driven by profits and these profits often come at the expense of people’s health.
There are more effective ways to reduce your cholesterol and reduce inflammation without resorting to dangerous drugs. Statin drugs are questionable because the benefits do not outweigh the risks given that there are natural alternatives as well as the benefits of making simple lifestyle changes.
