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In a retrospective cohort study, Giovanni Corrao and colleagues from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, evaluated 115,709 individuals who were recently diagnosed with diabetes and treated with statins during the time period of 2003-2004 and followed prospectively until 2010.