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Correspondence response
Response to: ‘Statin therapy now more common than steroids in clinical practice’ by Pareek and Chankurdar
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We appreciate the interest shown by Pareek and Chankurdar1 concerning our recent study on diabetes mellitus (DM) risk associated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and statins in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).2 They pointed out that statin-associated DM risk in patients with RA might be a more important concern than the risk attributed to glucocorticoids (GCs) due to longer treatment durations.1
We agree that statin treatment is potentially continued for a longer duration than GC when initiated in patients with RA, as in the case of our cohort (median (IQR) duration for statins: 13 (6–26) months vs GC: 7 (0–17) months). However, GCs are more frequently used in patients with RA than statins …