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Letters Risk of diabetes with statins

Authors’ reply to Braithwaite

BMJ 2023; 382 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1723 (Published 26 July 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;382:p1723
  1. Ishak A Mansi, professor of medicine1,
  2. Priya Sumithran, principal research fellow2,
  3. Mustafa Kinaan, assistant professor of medicine3
  1. 1Department of Education, Orlando VA Health Care System, Orlando, Florida, USA
  2. 2Department of Medicine (St Vincent’s), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando
  1. ishak.mansi{at}utsouthwestern.edu

We agree with Braithwaite1 that cardiovascular events are usually acutely defined and generally have an immediate impact on patients’ health, whereas development of diabetes can be insidious and without immediate consequences. The intention of our article2 was to alert clinicians to this adverse …

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