Add this to the growing list of dangerous side effects of cholesterol reducing statin drugs. Alternative medicine has been warning of this drug class for years and of the dubious connection between high cholesterol and heart disease. Now western research is catching up with what we have know from years, these drugs are dangerous and have questionable effectiveness.

A recent meta-analysis has demonstrated that taking statin drugs is associated with excess risk of developing diabetes.

Researchers looked at five different clinical trials that together examined more than 32,000 people. They found that the higher the dosage of statin drugs being taken, the greater the diabetes risk.

According to the study, as reported by Green Med Info:

“In a pooled analysis of data from 5 statin trials, intensive-dose statin therapy was associated with an increased risk of new-onset diabetes compared with moderate-dose statin therapy.”

Source:
Journal of the American Medical Association June 22, 2011; 305(24): 2556-2564