This is interesting to me. So what they were finding in this observational study, was that with patients who took statin medications (to help to lower cholesterol and risk of cardiovascular events) they had an increased incidence of new onset Type 2 Diabetes.
Since it was just a matter of the researchers observing the large volume of residents, they could not control the environment or the foods they were eating.
This makes it more difficult to determine what the route cause of the increased risk for developing diabetes was. Part of me wonders whether perhaps the reliance on medication to lower cholesterol, instead of changing dietary/lifestyle habits showed the greater problem. So if this group chose the statin medication to do the work for them, they may also not have been making healthy diet and exercise choices that would reduce any insulin resistance and prevent the development of diabetes too.
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2014/06/19/dc13-2215.abstract
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