Consumer Alert! Lipitor Diabetes Warning!

Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring manufacturers of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to place warning labels on their products alerting consumers and medical providers to an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Statins have been available to treat high cholesterol since the 1980s, but purportedly only recently was the link between statins and diabetes discovered (at least that is what the manufacturers claim, and I have serious doubts). The warning labels come in the wake of several large-scale studies that revealed the risks associated with taking statins are far greater than what the statin industry previously advised the public and medical community.