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Table 5 Association of statin exposure (cumulative supply) with FG (no normalization)a, based on statin users who had normal FG prior to statin use, filtered for all drugs, by statin type

From: Modest effect of statins on fasting glucose in a longitudinal electronic health record based cohort

Statin type

Number of individuals

Number of observations

Regression coefficient (S.E.)

R2

All

11,496

49,415

0.135 (0.00954)

0.00403

Simva

3765

14,471

0.126 (0.02234)

0.00221

Lova

6542

32,309

0.122 (0.01111)

0.00371

Atorva

1051

2280

0.181 (0.08167)

0.00215

  1. aAdjusted for covariates age, sex, BMI, race/ethnicity and average FG during the 5 years prior to start of statin