Dr. Aseem Malhotra
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What else is going on?
And what else are you ignoring?
Right?
Yeah.
What else does statins do?
They cause insulin resistance.
Say one in a hundred people get type two diabetes because of statins.
One in two.
One in a hundred.
One in a hundred.
Yeah.
One in a hundred.
So about one to 2%, but one in a hundred.
Some studies say one in 50, right?
We'll get type two diabetes because of the statin.
Probably reversible still, but not ideal, right?
If you're on a statin drug.
The second thing is look at the whole patient coming in.
We have the illusion of protection.
We have patients I used to see coming in and they thought my cholesterol is low.