Recently, an article published in The American Journal of Cardiology titled “Risk of new-onset diabetes mellitus versus reduction in cardiovascular events with statin therapy.” provided important insight into the connection between statin drugs (Lipitor, Crestor, others) and new-onset diabetes.

KL Wang et al. (2014) write “The Food and Drug Administration recently updated the

Published in the January, 2014 edition of the medical journal Liver Transplantation by Y. Cho et al., an article titled “Statin therapy is associated with the development of new-onset diabetes after transplantation in liver recipients with high fasting plasma glucose levels.”  provides further insight into the connection between statin therapy and new-onset diabetes.