Eleven studies including 63,558 patients reported rates of DM in patients treated with either moderate doses of statins
or placebo. In patients treated with moderate-dose statins, there were 2,601 cases of DM among 31,764 patients
(8.18%) compared with 2,527 cases among 31,794 patients (7.95%) in the control group. Figure 3 shows that even
moderate-dose rosuvastatin therapy still created the highest risk for DM. Treatment with atorvastatin 10 mg/day