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Statins can lower diabetics' heart risk -- USA Today

A daily dose of a cholesterol-lowering statin dramatically lowers the risk of serious heart disease and stroke in patients with the most common form of diabetes, even those with normal cholesterol levels, researchers reported here Sunday. The landmark study, which involved 2,838 people in the United Kingdom and Ireland who had no history of cardiovascular disease, found that a low dose (10 mgs) of Lipitor (atorvastatin) cut the risk of serious heart problems by 36% and stroke by 48%, said Helen Colhoun of University College Dublin, who presented the results at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association. The study was halted last June, two years earlier than planned, because the treatment worked so well in preventing heart disease, she said. The study, coordinated at the University College London, where Colhoun was based until recently, was sponsored by the charity group Diabetes UK, the UK Department of Health and Pfizer, which makes Lipitor.