Statins for people with diabetes.

摘要

Statins are among the most notable triumphs of modern medicine. Since the demonstration of reduction in mortality in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) study in 1994, these lipid-lowering drugs have become widely used in people with or without known cardiovascular disease and in people with average as well as high cholesterol concentrations. In recent years, generic formulations have made the drugs affordable for more people.